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considered to be an implicit part of the legislative power. Judges, though, resolve cases with an eye towards crafting legal sol ...

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complain. Among those who do complain, only a limited number take steps to consult a lawyer, and increasingly there are non-lawy ...

function for the disputes that judges consider. Courts serve as a venue for transforming various social, economic, and political ...

There seems little doubt that judges use these established principles to help gain acceptance of their policy designs. For that ...

category is the elimination of racially segregated public schools in the United States. In 1954 , the Supreme Court decided that ...

inform suspects who are in custody that they do not have to incriminate them- selves. While adhering to the letter of the Court’ ...

thus will often opt for something other than their preferred policies as a means of preserving or strengthening their authority ...

All this makes judges highly dependent upon other institutions to put their decisions into eVect. The various conditions for pol ...

will make sense across a range of countries with diVerent institutional arrange- ments. Where courts are relatively recent polit ...

Fisher,L. 2004 .Presidential War Power, 2 nd edn. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. Flemming,R.B. 2005 .Tournament of Appeal ...

Levi,E.H. 1948 .An Introduction to Legal Reasoning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. McGuire,K.T. 2005. Schools, religious ...

Tushnet,M.V. 2005 .NAACP’s Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925 – 1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina P ...

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goals and aspirations of politicians, and how these together shape policies adopted by government. 1 Political Parties as Instit ...

movements that turn to electoral politics, such as social democratic parties: Lipset and Rokkan 1987 ; Przeworksi and Spraque 19 ...

themselves into competitive democracies, and, in their respective elections, the erstwhile authoritarian party was voted out of ...

there, there is growing attenuation of party discipline, and to that limited degree, two-party parliaments are at least slightly ...

among the various coalitions that might form, and could—and some did—even condition their vote on those preferences over coaliti ...

In sum, the study of political parties necessarily entails two central aspects of the national party system, regardless of how f ...