The Global Expansion of Judicial Power

Download or read book The Global Expansion of Judicial Power written by C Neal Tate and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political scientists and legal scholars of various ideological perspectives trace the intellectual origins of the trend toward the judicialization of politics and the increasing domination of decision- making arenas by quasi-judicial procedures, looking at conditions that promote or retard judicialization in specific countries including Western common-law democracies, European Romano-Germanic democracies, and rapidly changing nations such as Russia and Namibia. Contains papers from a June 1992 meeting, plus other papers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR