Merit selection commissions cannot be fully insulated from interest-group influence
Evidence
Although selection of judges solely on the basis of qualifications may be the aim of merit selection, it is not, and cannot be, the full reality. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 442
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A merit-based promotion ideal proved politically untenable without dilution — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 319; Merit selection transforms rather than removes politics from judicial selection — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 439; Interest-group membership functions as much to exclude outsiders as to unite insiders — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1992 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Merit selection transforms rather than removes politics from judicial selection
#expands(0.88) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 439 - Commissions succeed only when empowered to recommend and led by political actors, not academics
#qualifies(0.79) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 527 - A merit-based promotion ideal proved politically untenable without dilution
#exemplifies(0.78) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 319 - Interest-group membership functions as much to exclude outsiders as to unite insiders
#expands(0.75) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1992 - Deliberative legitimacy requires considerations neutral across interest groups
#complicates(0.74) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 854