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2 - North Carolina

Partisanship in the Extreme

from Part I - Change as an Exercise in Partisan Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2020

Herbert M. Kritzer
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota School of Law
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North Carolina could be described as the archetype of political/policy motivation in states changing their judicial selection/retention systems. Although the first change from partisan to nonpartisan elections came in response to litigation, most of the changes to nonpartisan elections were made when the Democratic Party controlled the legislature, but Republican judicial candidates were having increasing success in partisan judicial elections. Once Republicans obtained political control in the state, the legislature sought to manipulate judicial selection/retention to advantage Republicans, albeit sometimes being hoisted on their own petard.

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Judicial Selection in the States
Politics and the Struggle for Reform
, pp. 33 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • North Carolina
  • Herbert M. Kritzer
  • Book: Judicial Selection in the States
  • Online publication: 06 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866941.005
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  • North Carolina
  • Herbert M. Kritzer
  • Book: Judicial Selection in the States
  • Online publication: 06 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866941.005
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  • North Carolina
  • Herbert M. Kritzer
  • Book: Judicial Selection in the States
  • Online publication: 06 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866941.005
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