Running for judge: The rising political, financial, and legal stakes of judicial elections

Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-253

  Streb, Matthew J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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