TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ramseyer,J.Mark
AU  - Rasmusen,Eric
TI  - Measuring judicial independence: the political economy of judging in Japan 
T2  - Studies in law and economics
SN  - 9780226703879 (electronic bk.)
AV  - KNX1610 .R36 2003eb
U1  - 347.52/014 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Judges
KW  - Japan
KW  - Judicial process
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
KW  - Courts
KW  - Juges
KW  - Japon
KW  - Processus judiciaire
KW  - Politique et pouvoir judiciaire
KW  - Tribunaux
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - Judicial Branch
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LAW
KW  - Legal Services
KW  - Civil Procedure
KW  - Rechtspraak
KW  - gtt
KW  - Rechterlijke organisatie
KW  - Onafhankelijkheid (algemeen)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index; 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
N2  - 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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