Reducing Partisanship in Judicial Elections Can Improve Judge Quality: Evidence from U.S. State Supreme Courts
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JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2016-04-04 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAW-2016-04-04 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2016-04-04 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-POL-2016-04-04 (Positive Political Economics)
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