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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824416203321

Autore

Shapiro Martin M

Titolo

On law, politics, and judicialization / / Martin Shapiro and Alec Stone Sweet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

9786612007217

0-19-160023-7

1-282-00721-1

0-19-153137-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 417 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

Stone SweetAlec

Disciplina

340.115

Soggetti

Law - Political aspects

Courts

Sociological jurisprudence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-405) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Law, Courts, and Social Science -- Political Jurisprudence -- Judicialization and the Construction of Governance -- 2. Judicial Law-making and Precedent -- Towards a Theory of Stare Decisis -- Path Dependence, Precedent, and Judicial Power -- 3. Constitutional Judicial Review -- The Success of Judicial Review and Democracy -- Constitutional Politics in France and Germany -- 4. Testing, Comparison, Prediction -- The Giving Reasons Requirement -- The European Court and Integration -- 5. Judges and Company -- Globalization of Freedom of Contract -- Islands of Transnational Governance -- 6. Abstract Review and Judicial Law-making -- Abstract and Concrete Review in the United States -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

Two of the world's leading political scientists present the best of their research, focusing on how to build and test a social science of law and courts. Written for a broad, scholarly audience, the book is also recommended for use in graduate and advanced undergraduate



courses in law and the social sciences.