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Are elected judges superior to appointed judges?

April 26, 2017appointed elected Judges superior

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Are elected judges superior to appointed judges?

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“We began this project with the assumption that the data would demonstrate that appointed judges are better than elected judges. Our results persuade us that the story is more complicated. It may be that elected judges are, indeed, superior to appointed judges….” Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati, and Eric A. Posner, Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather than Appointed Judiciary (Olin L. & Ec. Working Paper No. 357 2d Series, U. Chi. L. S. 2007).