Add to ORKGThe judicial selection and retention provisions of the Alaska Constitution, found in Article IV, achieve a delicate and remarkably successful balance between competing interests. The purposes of this article are to describe this constitutional plan (called “merit selection” because it begins with nomination based on merit alone), explain why the founders adopted it, examine historical challenges to it, and assess its performance on the 60th anniversary of Alaska statehood
During the twentieth century, judicial reformers attempting to depoliticize the selection of state c...
In 1980, Seattle established a judicial merit selection process for the Seattle Municipal Court, bas...
In the November 2000 election, the citizens of Florida had the opportunity to switch from the nonpar...
Delegates to Alaska\u27s Constitutional Convention adopted a Judiciary Article that called for the s...
The judicial selection and retention provisions of the Alaska Constitution, found in Article IV, ach...
The Alaska legislature is considering a bill — Senate Joint Resolution 3 — that would put before vot...
The fact that Alaska has been able to build a judiciary widely heralded as the best among the fifty ...
While the judicial merit system in Alaska has effectively balanced accountability with the competing...
The results of recent judicial retention elections in Alaska, and the recent increase in political a...
This Article demonstrates that merit selection is functioning commendably in Arizona and, for the mo...
In the 1968 Pennsylvania primary election the voters of that state adopted in toto the recommendatio...
The writing of the Alaska State Constitution took place in an unique historical context that materia...
The timeline of selected milestones appearing on pp. 2–3 (split-page format) is also available separ...
The Alaska State Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamatio...
This article explains Wyoming’s commission based judicial selection process, studies how it has perf...
During the twentieth century, judicial reformers attempting to depoliticize the selection of state c...
In 1980, Seattle established a judicial merit selection process for the Seattle Municipal Court, bas...
In the November 2000 election, the citizens of Florida had the opportunity to switch from the nonpar...
Delegates to Alaska\u27s Constitutional Convention adopted a Judiciary Article that called for the s...
The judicial selection and retention provisions of the Alaska Constitution, found in Article IV, ach...
The Alaska legislature is considering a bill — Senate Joint Resolution 3 — that would put before vot...
The fact that Alaska has been able to build a judiciary widely heralded as the best among the fifty ...
While the judicial merit system in Alaska has effectively balanced accountability with the competing...
The results of recent judicial retention elections in Alaska, and the recent increase in political a...
This Article demonstrates that merit selection is functioning commendably in Arizona and, for the mo...
In the 1968 Pennsylvania primary election the voters of that state adopted in toto the recommendatio...
The writing of the Alaska State Constitution took place in an unique historical context that materia...
The timeline of selected milestones appearing on pp. 2–3 (split-page format) is also available separ...
The Alaska State Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamatio...
This article explains Wyoming’s commission based judicial selection process, studies how it has perf...
During the twentieth century, judicial reformers attempting to depoliticize the selection of state c...
In 1980, Seattle established a judicial merit selection process for the Seattle Municipal Court, bas...
In the November 2000 election, the citizens of Florida had the opportunity to switch from the nonpar...