Global perspectives on the rule of law
By: edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan.
Contributors: Heckman, James J.; Nelson, Robert L., 1952-; Cabatingan, Lee.
Publisher: Routledge; Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780415499552; 9780203870594
Subjects: Rule of law
Description: "A GlassHouse book"--Title page verso.
Notes: "A GlassHouse book."
Table of contents: title: Rule of law temptations / Thomas Carothers; title: Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule of law / Barry R. Weingast; title: Global justice / Amartya Sen; title: The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice : a historical perspective / Timur Kuran; title: The viability of the welfare state / James J. Heckman; title: Comparing legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Franklin Allen and Jun Q.J. Qian; title: Law, finance, and the first corporations / Ron Harris; title: The politics of courts in democratization / Thomas Ginsburg; title: Principled principals in the founding moments of the rule of law / Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly; title: The fight for basic legal freedoms : mobilization by the legal complex / Terence C. Halliday; title: Social norms, rule of law, and gender reality : an essay on the limits of the dominant rule of law paradigm / Katharina Pistor, Antara Haldar, and Amrit Amirapu; title: Constitutionalism and the challenge of ethnic diversity / Yash Ghai.