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Hall, Melinda. and Bonneau, Chris. "On the Nature of Ballot Rolloff in Contemporary State Supreme Court Elections" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41192_index.html>

Hall, M. G. and Bonneau, C. W. , 2005-09-01 "On the Nature of Ballot Rolloff in Contemporary State Supreme Court Elections" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41192_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In this paper, we examine ballot roll-off in partisan and nonpartisan state supreme court elections from 1990 through 2004, in order to answer some basic questions about the nature of citizen participation in these races. Specifically, to establish the degree of variation in voter participation along several critical dimensions, we analyze ballot roll-off across states, over time, across selection systems, according to the presence or absence of challengers, and by the type of geographic constituency. Further, we estimate a simple contextual model to test several important hypotheses about the conditions under which voters do, or do not, participate in supreme court elections once they already are at the polls to cast votes for other important offices. Results indicate that ballot roll-off varies considerably across states, over time, across selection systems, and according to the presence or absence of challengers. These findings stand in direct contradistinction to traditional notions that voters uniformly are disinterested in judicial elections. Moreover, several institutional and other contextual features serve to account for a substantial proportion of the variation in ballot roll-off in supreme court elections in the American states. In essence, voter participation in state supreme court elections is quite predictable and rests in substantial measure on factors mobilizing voters in other types of elections.

Mobilizing Interest: The Effects of Money on Ballot Roll-Off in State Supreme Court Elections

Mobilizing Interest: The Effects of Money on Ballot Roll-Off in Contemporary State Supreme Court Elections