Democracy and the Courts

"Democracy and the Courts is current as well as pathbreaking. Focusing on fifteen southern and border states, Gold reviews the emergence of judicial elections and demolishes the conventional explanation that the adoption of judicial elections was designed to further the adoption of judicial review."—Steven H. Steinglass, dean emeritus and professor emeritus, Cleveland State University College of Law

"While others have written on the rise of judicial elections in the Jacksonian Era South in pieces, no one has brought together these pieces as a unified whole until Gold."—Charles Zeldon, Nova Southeastern University, author of Bush v. Gore

"Scholars should carefully note Gold's lucid, persuasive argument that the shift to an elective judiciary in the South reflected a commitment to democracy rather than a desire to buttress judicial review."—Michael Les Benedict, professor emeritus, The Ohio State University