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The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Jerold L. Waltman

    1. University of Southern Mississippi, USA

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  2. Kenneth M. Holland

    1. University of Vermont, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Jerold L. Waltman
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Courts in the United States

    • Kenneth M. Holland
    Pages 6-30

  4. The Courts in Australia

    • Roman Tomasic
    Pages 31-52

  5. The Courts in Canada

    • Carl Baar
    Pages 53-82

  6. The Courts in the Federal Republic of Germany

    • Kenneth M. Holland
    Pages 83-107

  7. The Courts in England

    • Jerold L. Waltman
    Pages 108-128

  8. The Courts in France

    • Dallis Radamaker
    Pages 129-152

  9. The Courts in Italy

    • Giuseppe Di Federico, Carlo Guarnieri
    Pages 153-180

  10. The Courts in Sweden

    • Joseph B. Board
    Pages 181-198

  11. The Courts in Japan

    • Hiroshi Itoh
    Pages 199-215

  12. The Courts and Political Change in Post-Industrial Society

    • Jerold L. Waltman
    Pages 216-234

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 235-237
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southern Mississippi, USA

    Jerold L. Waltman

  • University of Vermont, USA

    Kenneth M. Holland

About the editors

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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