How Public Perception of Federal Judicial Nominees Varies by State Judicial Selection Methods

• In Event: U.S. Federal Judicial Selection

Brief Overview

We employ a conjoint experiment to examine whether people who live in states that hold non-partisan state judicial elections evaluate federal judicial nominees differently than people from states that use partisan elections to select their judges.

Authors

• Christopher Newell Krewson, Claremont Graduate University

• Ryan James Owens, University of Wisconsin-Madison