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The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies

The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies

Waltman, Jerold
Holland, Kenneth M.

Hardcover

General LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0333394054
ISBN13: 9780333394052
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Feb 23 1988
Pages: 237
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
No society can function without judicial institutions. At a minimum, conflict must be regulated and the criminal law enforced. Ironically, though, modern political science has tended to ignore the role of courts in advanced industrial societies, so much so that even basic information has often been unavailable. This book covers three important bases. First, it provides, for the first time, up-to-date material about the court systems - their structures, their personnel, their jurisdictions - of the major democratic nations. Second, it places the courts in their political context, eschewing legalism and stressing their linkages with other institutions and their role in the policy process. Third, there is an attempt to assess the direction of contemporary change, especially how it relates to broader themes of other types of political change.

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