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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom Ginsburg |
ISBN: | 0521520398 0521817153 9780521520393 9780521817158 |
OCLC Number: | 634173605 |
Description: | XI, 295 Seiten : Diagramme |
Contents: | Acknowledgements; Notes on usage; Introduction: the decline and fall of parliamentary sovereignty; 1. Why judicial review?; 2. Constituting judicial power; 3. Building judicial power; 4. Courts in new democracies; 5. Confucian constitutionalism? The grand justices of the Republic of China; 6. Distorting democracy? The constitutional court of Mongolia; 7. Rule by law or rule of law? The constitutional court of Korea; 8. Conclusion: comparing constitutional courts; Bibliography; Index. |
Responsibility: | Tom Ginsburg. |
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"Every serious scholar and student of constitutional politics and institutional design should read this book." The Law and Politics Book Review "Ginsburg provides compelling empirical support in his three East Asian cases that judicial power increases when political power is diffuse. Because he is interested in highlihgting the conditions under which courts can constrain other political actors, compliance is an important indicator of judicial independence." - Shannon Roesler, Law and Social Inquiry Read more...
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