Civil Service Reforms Can Go Too Far
Tom Pendergast (and to a lesser extent his brother, James) cast a huge shadow over Missouri government and politics, both...
Judge Not, Lest Ye … Oh, Just Go Ahead
For many of us, election time can be overwhelming: We understand that we have the opportunity to create significant change,...
The Missouri Plan
John Combest recently posted a couple of articles about Better Courts for Missouri’s attempt to change the Missouri Plan, the...
Post-Dispatch Editorial About Judges Needs a Tweak
Yesterday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an editorial against making changes to Missouri’s judicial selection system, suitably enough known as...
Slate Links to Show-Me Institute Study
Earlier today, Slate ran an article about the debates now raging over whether judicial merit selection, popularly known as “The...
Economic Growth Only One Factor in Choosing Judicial Selection System
Earlier this year, the Show-Me Institute released a study of the “Missouri Plan,” the state’s merit system for judicial selection....
Two More November Ballot Issues
To follow up on yesterday’s post, we have some studies and articles out looking at a couple more ballot issues....
Greene County Could Benefit From Non-Partisan Judicial Selection
You may have heard there will be an election this November. Alongside trivial votes, such as who to choose for...
The Missouri Plan, for Your Consideration
Combest today has a number of links to articles about proposed changes to the Missouri Plan of judicial selection. In...
They Are Talking About Us in Manhattan!
If we can make it there … you know the rest. I am not actually positive that the Manhattan Institutue...
Is the ‘Missouri Plan’ Good for Missouri?
Recent judicial appointments in Missouri have intensified calls for reform of Missouri’s judicial selection process. While these debates can seem...
Springfield and the Courts, a Love Story
The Springfield News-Leader ran an op-ed about our recently published study of the "Missouri Plan" for judicial selection. The piece...
Show-Me Institute Releases Judicial Selection Study
The Show-Me Institute has released our contribution to the ongoing debate about the "Missouri Plan" and judicial selection in Missouri....
The Missouri Plan
The Federalist Society has released a study investigating the correlation between states with a merit selection judiciary (the so-called “Missouri...
Judicial Elections and Parkland Sales
The Arch City Chronicle links to two stories, one from Detroit and one from DC, on issues of interest to...
Wall Street Journal and Mo’ Better Judges
The Wall Street Journal has a lead editorial today on Missouri’s system of selecting judges, very originally known as "The...
Feedback on Missouri Plan Op-Ed
I have had the pleasure of receiving some great feedback from David Steelman over the past two days about my...
Tweaking the Judicial Selection Process
Our newest policy analyst, David Stokes, spent years involved with local and county government, and other area organizations, before joining...
The Missouri Plan, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lawyers
Missourians amended our state constitution in 1940 to change the ways judges were selected for the Supreme Court, the Court...
