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1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in law and economics
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Studies in law and economics (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 selecting federal judges. Legal scholars have always debated these questions--asking, in effect, how much judicial systems operate on merit and principle and how much they are shaped by politics. The Japanese Constitution, like many others, requires that all judges be "independent in the exercise of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Judges -- Japan.
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Judges. |
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Japan. |
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Judicial process -- Japan.
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Judicial process. |
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Political questions and judicial power -- Japan.
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Political questions and judicial power. |
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Courts -- Japan.
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Courts. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rasmusen, Eric.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ramseyer, J. Mark, 1954- Measuring judicial independence. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003 9780226703886 (DLC) 2002072081 (OCoLC)49902161 |
| ISBN |
9780226703879 (electronic book) |
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0226703878 (electronic book) |
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9780226703886 |
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0226703886 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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