Research Handbook on Law and Political Systems

Edited by Robert M. Howard, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University, Kirk A. Randazzo, Professor of Political Science, Chair, Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina, Rebecca A. Reid, Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Texas at El Paso, US

• Contents;1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Political Systems 1Robert M. Howard, Rebecca A. Reid, and Kirk A. Randazzo2 Court-curbing through legal reforms or coercion? 8Aylin Aydin-Cakir3 Majoritarians in robes 25Todd Curry and Michael Romano4 Gender, race, and politics in judicial process 40Tao Dumas and Alexandra Mannix5 Judges and politics in UK courts 57Lewis Graham6 Government transparency and judicial deference 71Gbemende Johnson7 A court of law or a court of judges? 85Maoz Rosenthal and Shai Talmor8 Planting seeds but bearing different fruit 99Kyle Shen9 Explaining congressional support for the federal judiciary 122Jake S. Truscott and Teena Wilhelm10 Instrumentalization of constitutional law in Central Asia 139Alexei Trochev and Alisher Juzgenbayev11 Politicization of courts in European democracies 169Maria Popova and Christine Rothmayr Allison12 Constitution-making and transnational expertise: lessons from the 2014Tunisian Constitution 186Alicia Pastor y Camarasa13 The battle for judicial independence 200Mónica Castillejos-Aragón14 Public support and compliance with high courts around the world 212Amanda Driscoll and Martín Gandur15 Open justice at highest courts 234Philipp Meyer16 Courting dissent 254Hayley Munir and Syed Rashid Munir17 The theoretical and empirical relationship between legal pluralism andeconomic development 271Valenta Kabo18 The Caribbean Court of Justice 289Harold A. Young19 Law and violence against civilians 305M.P. Broache20 Strategic deference of the European Court of Justice 325Joshua Boston and Dino Hadzic21 Conclusion to the Research Handbook on Law and Political Systems 344Kirk A. Randazzo, Rebecca A. Reid, and Robert M. HowardIndex 355

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