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91 Judicature 70 (2007-2008)
Contestation, Competition, and the Potential for Accountability in Intermediate Appellate Court Elections

handle is hein.journals/judica91 and id is 70 raw text is: r,~ ~: til mis empincai oe,5 we examine resuits tor au interme- diate appellate court genermelections (partisan, nonpar- tisan, and retention) from 2000-2006. We compare those results to elections for the U.S. House of Representatives and state supreme courts over the same time period. We find that the chief obstacle to accountability in intermediate appellate elections is to get people to run in the first place. A sizable proportion of intermediate appel- ous ctratts or tnis manusriplt. nI errors are, ot course, our responsty. IMatthew J. Streb, Judicial Electrons:A Different Standard For the Ruleaakers, in MatthewJ. Streb ed., LAW AND ELECrIoN POLITICS: THE RtULES OF THE GAME; (Boulder: Lyne Reinner Publishers, 2005). 2.justice at Stake Campaign. 2001. PolI of Anercan Voters. Conducted by Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research lnc. October 30-Noember 7. <http://wwwv.jusrikeatstake .org> 3. MatthewJ. Streb & Brian Frederick, Judicial Reform aed the Future ofJudi- ciallec\tions, in MatthewJ. Streb, ed., RUNNING FOpJuGi_: THE RISING POIT- ItAL, FINANCI u, NI LGAL STAES (F JUDICAL EICIONS (New York: NYU Press, 2007). 4. Melinda Gann Hall, State Supreme Courts in American Democray: Probing the Ayths ,/Judiial Rforn. 5 AM. PM.. Si. Rev. 315330. (2001P ; Melinda Gann Hall, Competition as Accountability in State Supreme Court Elections, in MatthewJ. Streb, ed., supra n. 3. 70 JUDICATURE Volume 91, Number 2 September-October 2007