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Measuring judicial independence : the political economy of judging in Japan /

The role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election raised questions in the minds of many Americans about the relationships between judges and political influence; the following years saw equally heated debates over the appropriate role of political ideology in sele...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ramseyer, J. Mark, 1954-
Otros Autores: Rasmusen, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Colección:Studies in law and economics (Chicago, Ill.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 1968; 1. The Setting; 2. Preliminary Empirics: Methodology and Communist Judges; 3. The Effect of Judicial Decisions: Anti-Government Opinions and Electoral Law Disputes; 4. Political Disputes: Military, Malapportionment, Injunctions, and Constitutional Law; 5. Administrative Disputes: Taxpayers against the Government; 6. Criminal Cases: Suspects against the Government; 7. Toward a Party-Alternation Theory of Comparative Judicial Independence; 8. Conclusions; Appendixes; References; Index.