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J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen

Measuring Judicial Independence

The Political Economy of Judging in Japan

224 pages, 3 line drawings, 42 tables  6 x 9  © 2003
Series: Studies in Law and Economics

Cloth $48.00

ISBN: 9780226703886   Published February 2003

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
Subjects



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