The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies by Waltman, Jerold

The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333394052)

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The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies by Waltman, Jerold

The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies

$109.99
The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies by Waltman, Jerold

The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Jerold Waltman
ISBN-10: 0333394054
ISBN-13: 9780333394052
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/23/1988
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
By Jerold Waltman
By Jerold Waltman
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JEROLD L. WALTMAN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is editor (with Donley T. Studlar) of Dilemmas of Change in British Politics and author of The Political Origins of the US Income Tax and Copying Other Nations' Policies

KENNETH M. HOLLAND is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He has published a number of articles on the judicial process in learned journals and is the author of Writers' Guide: Political Science.

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