Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies

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' PoliciesKENNETH 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.

• Preface Notes on the Editors and Contributors Introduction; J.L.Waltman The Courts in the United States; K.M.Holland The Courts in Australia; R.Tomasic The Courts in Canada; C.Baar The Courts in the Federal Republic of Germany; K.M. Holland The Courts in England; J.L.Waltman The Courts in France; C.Guarieri The Courts in Sweden; J.B.Board The Courts in Japan; H.Itoh The Courts and Political Change in Postindustrial Society; J.L.Waltman Index