Consequential Courts :
Consequential Courts : Judicial Roles in Global Perspective /
edited by Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein, Robert A. Kagan.
- 1 online resource (452 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy .
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented during a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and the ways they have come to matter in the political life of their nations. It offers empirically rich accounts of dramatic judicial actions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, exploring the political conditions and judicial strategies that have fostered those assertions of power and evaluating when and how courts' performance of new roles has been politically consequential. By focusing on the content and consequences of judicial power, the book advances a new agenda for the comparative study of courts.
9781139207843 (ebook)
Judicial power
Political questions and judicial power
Courts
K3367 / .C657 2013
347/.012
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented during a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and the ways they have come to matter in the political life of their nations. It offers empirically rich accounts of dramatic judicial actions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, exploring the political conditions and judicial strategies that have fostered those assertions of power and evaluating when and how courts' performance of new roles has been politically consequential. By focusing on the content and consequences of judicial power, the book advances a new agenda for the comparative study of courts.
9781139207843 (ebook)
Judicial power
Political questions and judicial power
Courts
K3367 / .C657 2013
347/.012