Dubois, Philip L. “From Ballot to Bench: Judicial Elections and the Quest for Accountability,” Austin: University of Texas Press (1980).

This book thoroughly analyzes all statewide elections held from 1948 to 1974 for justices of state courts of last resort in nonsouthern states and concludes that non-elective judicial selection systems have not dramatically improved the quality of the bench and that partisan judicial elections go a long way toward achieving their accountability goal.