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Percentage Elected in States that Changed from Partisan to Nonpartisan Elections Percentage Elected Election Type
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During at least part of the post–World War II period, the constitutions of thirty-six states called for the popular election of the judges of the states’ highest courts. In practice, only slightly more than half of those judges (excluding strictly interim appointees) initially obtained their positions by election. This article examines the likeliho...
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... series of logistic regression models, see Table A1 in the online appendix, showed that party competitiveness had an effect, but only where partisan (including semi-partisan) elections were used. Table 3 provides an easy way to see the effect of competitiveness in partisan/semi-partisan election states and the lack of effect in nonpartisan election states. ...