Measuring judicial independence : the political economy of judging in Japan / J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen.

By:

Ramseyer, J. Mark, 1954-

Contributor(s):

Rasmusen, Eric

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in law and economics (Chicago, Ill.)Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226703879
0226703878
1282537695
9781282537699
9786612537691
6612537698

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Measuring judicial independence.DDC classification:

347.52/014 22

LOC classification:

KNX1610 .R36 2003eb

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Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 1968; 1. The Setting; 2. Preliminary Empirics: Methodology and Communist Judges; 3. The Effect of Judicial Decisions: Anti-Government Opinions and Electoral Law Disputes; 4. Political Disputes: Military, Malapportionment, Injunctions, and Constitutional Law; 5. Administrative Disputes: Taxpayers against the Government; 6. Criminal Cases: Suspects against the Government; 7. Toward a Party-Alternation Theory of Comparative Judicial Independence; 8. Conclusions; Appendixes; References; Index.

Summary: The role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election raised questions in the minds of many Americans about the relationships between judges and political influence; the following years saw equally heated debates over the appropriate role of political ideology in selecting federal judges. Legal scholars have always debated these questions--asking, in effect, how much judicial systems operate on merit and principle and how much they are shaped by politics. The Japanese Constitution, like many others, requires that all judges be "independent in the exercise of.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.

The role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election raised questions in the minds of many Americans about the relationships between judges and political influence; the following years saw equally heated debates over the appropriate role of political ideology in selecting federal judges. Legal scholars have always debated these questions--asking, in effect, how much judicial systems operate on merit and principle and how much they are shaped by politics. The Japanese Constitution, like many others, requires that all judges be "independent in the exercise of.