Dubois, Philip L. “Penny for Your Thoughts? Campaign Spending in California Trial Court Elections, 1976-1982,” 36 Western Political Quarterly 265 (1986).
December 20, 2011This empirical study of judicial campaign expenditures in nonpartisanCaliforniatrial California trial court elections from 1976 to 1982 concludes that when viewed from the systemic level, judicial campaign costs are neither extraordinarily high nor rapidly increasing, and that as compared to expenditures for other political campagins, the costs are insignificant.