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This fascinating study explores some of the most significant consequences of supreme court elections in Ohio, the epicenter of new-style judicial campaigns. The primary focus on state tort liability law is unique, and the range of data examined is extraordinary. Especially innovative is a rigorous new methodology for measuring the impact of membership change brought about by elections. This well written book from three of the discipline's best scholars makes vitally important contributions to the study of law and judicial politics, elections, interest groups, and numerous other subfields of political science and thus merits serious attention from scholars, practitioners, and the public.--Melinda Gann Hal, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, is the author of Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections

This fascinating study explores some of the most significant consequences of supreme court elections in Ohio, the epicenter of new-style judicial campaigns. The primary focus on state tort liability law is unique, and the range of data examined is extraordinary. Especially innovative is a rigorous new methodology for measuring the impact of membership change brought about by elections. This well written book from three of the discipline's best scholars makes vitally important contributions to the study of law and judicial politics, elections, interest groups, and numerous other subfields of political science and thus merits serious attention from scholars, practitioners, and the public.--Melinda Gann Hall, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, is the author of Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections

This fascinating study explores some of the most significant consequences of supreme court elections in Ohio, the epicenter of new-style judicial campaigns. The primary focus on state tort liability law is unique, and the range of data examined is extraordinary. Especially innovative is a rigorous new methodology for measuring the impact of membership change brought about by elections. This well written book from three of the discipline's best scholars makes vitally important contributions to the study of law and judicial politics, elections, interest groups, and numerous other subfields of political science and thus merits serious attention from scholars, practitioners, and the public. --Melinda Gann Hall, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, is the author of Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections Baum, Klein, and Streb investigate the effects of interest group involvement in the election ofjudges in the United States. Focusing on personal injury law, they detail how interest groupsmobilize in response to unfavorable rulings by state supreme courts, how their efforts influencethe outcomes of supreme court elections, and how those outcomes in turn effectively reshape publicpolicies. The authors draw on several decades'worth of data on campaign activity, voter behavior, and judicial policymaking in one representative state, Ohio. --Law & Social Inquiry

Baum, Klein, and Streb investigate the effects of interest group involvement in the election ofjudges in the United States. Focusing on personal injury law, they detail how interest groupsmobilize in response to unfavorable rulings by state supreme courts, how their efforts influencethe outcomes of supreme court elections, and how those outcomes in turn effectively reshape publicpolicies. The authors draw on several decades'worth of data on campaign activity, voter behavior, and judicial policymaking in one representative state, Ohio. --Law & Social Inquiry This fascinating study explores some of the most significant consequences of supreme court elections in Ohio, the epicenter of new-style judicial campaigns. The primary focus on state tort liability law is unique, and the range of data examined is extraordinary. Especially innovative is a rigorous new methodology for measuring the impact of membership change brought about by elections. This well written book from three of the discipline's best scholars makes vitally important contributions to the study of law and judicial politics, elections, interest groups, and numerous other subfields of political science and thus merits serious attention from scholars, practitioners, and the public. --Melinda Gann Hall, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, is the author of Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections

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Lawrence Baum is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Ohio State University and the author of Specializing the Courts. David Klein is Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and the author of American Courts Expanded. Matthew Streb is Chair of the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University and the author of Rethinking American Electoral Democracy.

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