00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000010728 20221125014551 0010-1122000070 ta 221125################g##########0#eng## 978-0-521-89590-3 347.01 347.01 RUL r Rule by Law : The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes / Tom Ginsburg, Tamir Moustafa [editor] New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 387 hlm ; 25 cm Law Politics Scholars have generally assumed that courts in authoritarian states are pawns of their regimes, upholding the interests of governing elites and frustrating the efforts of their opponents. As a result, nearly all studies in comparative judicial politics have focused on democratic and democratizing countries. This volume brings together leading scholars in comparative judicial politics to consider the causes and consequences of judicial empowerment in authoritarian states. It demonstrates the wide range of governance tasks that courts perform, as well as the way in which courts can serve as critical sites of contention both among the ruling elite and between regimes and their citizens. Drawing on empirical and theoretical insights from every major region of the world, this volume advances our understanding of judicial politics in authoritarian regimes. 22167/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22168/MKRI-P/XI-2011