Courts, Law, and Politics in Comparative Perspective
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A01=Doris Marie Provine
A01=Erhard Blankenburg
A01=Herbert Jacob
A01=Herbert M. Kritzer
A01=Joseph Sanders
Author_Doris Marie Provine
Author_Erhard Blankenburg
Author_Herbert Jacob
Author_Herbert M. Kritzer
Author_Joseph Sanders
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Category=LAM
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- ISBN 9780300063790
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 1996
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This comprehensive book compares the intersection of political forces and legal practices in five industrial nations—the United States, England, France, Germany, and Japan. The authors, eminent political scientists and legal scholars, investigate how constitutional courts function in each country, how the adjudication of criminal justice and the processing of civil disputes connect legal systems to politics, and how both ordinary citizens and large corporations use the courts.
For each of the five countries, the authors discuss the structure of courts and access to them, the manner in which politics and law are differentiated or amalgamated, whether judicial posts are political prizes or bureaucratic positions, the ways in which courts are perceived as legitimate forms for addressing political conflicts, the degree of legal consciousness among citizens, the kinds of work lawyers do, and the manner in which law and courts are used as social control mechanisms. The authors find that although the extent to which courts participate in policymaking varies dramatically from country to country, judicial responsiveness to perceived public problems is not a uniquely American phenomenon.
For each of the five countries, the authors discuss the structure of courts and access to them, the manner in which politics and law are differentiated or amalgamated, whether judicial posts are political prizes or bureaucratic positions, the ways in which courts are perceived as legitimate forms for addressing political conflicts, the degree of legal consciousness among citizens, the kinds of work lawyers do, and the manner in which law and courts are used as social control mechanisms. The authors find that although the extent to which courts participate in policymaking varies dramatically from country to country, judicial responsiveness to perceived public problems is not a uniquely American phenomenon.
Herbert Jacob is professor of political science and urban affairs and policy research at Northwestern University. Erhard Blankenburg is professor in the Law Faculty at the Free University of Amsterdam. Herbert M. Kritzer is professor of political science and law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Doris Marie Provine is professor of political science at Syracuse University. Joseph Sanders is professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center.
