Judicial Selection and Judicial Administration Innovations in the United States, 1970-1979 Glick, Henry R. administration court system criminal justice system funding judge selection management policies and procedures state courts trial courts ICPSR.XII This data collection contains information for all 50 states on the major developments in the selection of state judges and the administration of each state court system. The data include the age of the state administrator's office, the percentage of court administrative staffers per total number of judges in trial courts, the salary of the state court administrator, and the percentage of total state expenditures allocated to court management. In addition, the court systems are rated according to eight indexes, including the Berkson/Carbon Consolidation and Simplification of Trial Court Structure Index and the 1967 Procedural Rule-Making Power Index. 1992-02-16 aggregate data 8252 10.3886/ICPSR08252.v1 data collections from the American Judicature Society and the Council of State Governments United States 1970--1979 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).