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.
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ISBN
9781107065291
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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