One of the most contentious issues in politics today is the propriety of electing judges. Ought
judges be independent of democratic processes in obtaining and retaining their seats, or …

In Electing Judges, leading judicial politics scholar James L. Gibson responds tothe growing
chorus of critics who fear that the politics of running for office undermine judicial …

Research on local turnout has focused on institutions, with little attention devoted to
examining the impact of campaigns. Using an original data set containing information from …

Evidence on whether there is a gender affinity effect in US elections is mixed. In this article,
we develop a theory of when gender affinity effects will be present and when they will be …

The year is 1993 and the Hawaii Supreme Court has just declared-as a matter of state
constitutional law-that the state prohibition of same-sex marriage constitutes gender …

Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks. These tactics have
become part and parcel of today's election politics in America, and judicial elections are no …

For years, scholars of elections have argued about whether campaign finance limitations
adversely affect electoral competition. In this article, we examine how the institutional …

Over the past two decades, campaigns for judicial elections in the US states have become
larger in scale. We analyze the impact of this development on voters' choices between …

Justices on the Ballot addresses two central questions in the study of judicial elections: how
have state supreme court elections changed since World War II? And, what effects have …

This project evaluates whether televised attack advertising and less restrictive campaign
speech codes brought about by Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002) have had …