The Global Expansion of Judicial Power / / ed. by C Neal Tate, Torbjorn Vallinder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Agius, Carmel A.,; Bogart, W. A.,; Edelman, Martin,; Federico, Giuseppe Di,; Galligan, Brian,; Grosselfinger, Nancy A.,; Guarnieri, Carlo,; Holmstrom, Barry,; Kate, Jan Ten,; Kitchin, William,; Lafon, Jacqueline Lucienne,; Landfried, Christine,; Mandel, Michael,; Mestitz, Anna,; Pederzoli, Patrizia,; Peter Wallach, H. G.,; Power, John,; Russell, Peter H.,; Shapiro, Martin,; Steytler, Nico,; Stone, Alec,; Sunkin, Maurice,; Tate, C. Neal,; Thomas, Cheryl A.,; Vallinder, Torbjörn,; Van Koppen, Peter J.,; Zannotti, Francesca,
• HerausgeberIn: Tate, C Neal,; Vallinder, Torbjorn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In Russia, as the confrontation over the constitutional distribution of authority raged, Boris Yeltsin's economic program regularly wended its way in and out of the Constitutional Court until Yeltsin finally suspended that court in the aftermath of his clash with the hard-line parliament. In Europe, French and German legislators and executives now routinely alter desired policies in response to or in anticipation of the pronouncements of constitutional courts. In Latin America and Africa, courts are--or will be-- important participants in ongoing efforts to establish constitutional rules and policies protect new or fragile democracies from the threats of military intervention, ethnic conflict, and revolution. This global expansion of judicial power, or judicialization of politics is accompanied by an increasing domination of negotiating or decision making arenas by quasi- judicial procedures. For better or for worse, the judicialization of politics has become one of the most significant trends of the end of the millenium.In this book, political scientists, legal scholars, and judges around the world trace the intellectual origins of this trend, describe its occurence--or lack of occurence--in specific nations, analyze the circumstances and conditions that promote or retard judicialization, and evaluate the phenomenon from a variety of intellectual and ideological perspectives.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. The Global Expansion of Judicial Power: The Judicialization of Politics -- PART I CONCEPTS AND CONDITIONS -- 2. When the Courts Go Marching In -- 3. Why the Expansion of Judicial Power? -- PART II WESTERN COMMON-LAW DEMOCRACIES -- The United States and the United Kingdom -- 4. The United States -- 5. The United Kingdom -- Australia -- 6. Judicial Intrusion into the Australian Cabinet -- 7. The Executive, the Judiciary, and Immigration Appeals in Australia -- Canada -- 8. Social Progress and Judicial Power in Canada -- 9. Canadian Constraints on Judicialization from Without -- PART III EUROPEAN ROMANO-GERMANIC DEMOCRACIES -- Cross-National Analyses -- 10. Training the Legal Professions in Italy, France and Germany -- 11. The Judicialization of Judicial Salary Policy in Italy and the United States -- 12. Complex Coordinate Construction in France and Germany -- The Italian Case -- 13. Italy: A Peculiar Case -- 14. Judicial Independence and PolicyMaking in Italy -- 15. Legal Politics Italian Style -- France and Germany -- 16. France -- 17. Germany -- 18. Reunification and Prospects for Judicialization in Germany -- The Smaller Democracies -- 19. Sweden -- 20. The Netherlands: Toward a Form of Judicial Review -- 21. The Judiciary and Politics in Malta -- 22. Israel -- PART IV RAPIDLY CHANGING NATIONS -- Post -Communist States -- 23. The Attempt to Institute Judicial Review in the Former USSR -- 24. Legal Reform and the Expansion of Judicial Power in Russia -- Troubled Democracies -- 25. The Philippines and Southeast Asia -- 26. The Judicialization of Namibian Politics -- CONCLUSION -- 27. Judicialization and the Future of Politics and Policy -- Contributors -- Index