McKnight, R. Neal, Roger Schaefer, and Charles A. Johnson. “Choosing Judges: Do the Voters Know What They’re Doing?” 62 Judicature 94 (1978).

This empirical study of partisan judicial elections in Texas in 1976 finds that the electorate lacks the information necessary to make an elective judicial selection system function properly, and concludes that for judicial elections to fulfill their democratic purpose, organizations should assume a more active role in informing the public about judicial candidates.