The Rule by law
Subtitle: the politics of courts in authoritarian regimes
By: edited by Tom Ginsburg, Tamir Moustafa.
Contributors: Ginsburg, Tom.; Moustafa, Tamir.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780521895903; 9780521720410
Subjects: Courts -- Political aspects; Justice, Administration of -- Political aspects; Political questions and judicial power; Judicial process; Authoritarianism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of judges and generals : security courts under authoritarian regimes in  Argentina, Brazil, and Chile / Anthony Pereira; title: Administrative law and judicial control of agents in authoritarian regimes / Tom Ginsburg; title: Singapore : the exception that proves rules matter / Gordon Silverstein; title: Judicial independence in authoritarian regimes : insights from Chile / Lisa Hilbink; title: Law and resistance in authoritarian states : the Egyptian case / Tamir Moustafa; title: Courts out of context : the authoritarian sources of judicial failure in Chile (1973; title: 1990) and Argentina (1976; title: 1983) / Robert Barros - An authoritarian enclave? the supreme court in Mexico's emerging democracy / Beatriz Magaloni; title: The institutional diffusion of courts in China : evidence from survey data / Pierre Landry; title: Building judicial independence in semi-democracies : Uganda and Tanzania / Jennifer Widner; title: Judicial power in authoritarian states : the Russian experience / Peter Solomon; title: Courts in a semi-democratic authoritarian regime : the judicialization of Turkish and Iranian politics / Hootan Shambayati; title: Judicial systems and economic development / Hilton Root & Karen May; title: Courts in authoritarian regimes / Martin Shapiro.