Comparative Judicial Politics synthesizes the now extensive scholarly work on judicial politics from around the world, focusing on legal traditions, lawyers, ju

This book is a study of how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy.

Constitutional courts around the world play an increasingly central role in day-to-day democratic governance. Yet scholars have only recently begun to develop t

This comprehensive book compares the intersection of political forces and legal practices in five industrial nations--the United States, England, France, German

After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the tran