This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or
strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic …

When and why do countries redistribute land to the landless? What political purposes does
land reform serve, and what place does it have in today's world? A longstanding literature …

RESUMO CAMPOS, Carlos Alexandre de Azevedo Campos. Dimensões do Ativismo
Judicial no Supremo Tribunal Federal. 2012. 376 f. Dissertação de Mestrado em Direito …

This article proposes a relational approach to studying judicial politics in non-Western
societies—a framework for the systematic analysis of informal relations between judges and …

How can societies restrain their coercive institutions and transition to a more humane
criminal justice system? We argue that two main factors explain why torture can persist as a …

Recent literature on comparative judicial politics reveals a variety of roles that courts adopt
in the process of democratization. These include, very rarely, serving as a trigger for …

A number of comparative judicial scholars have argued that assertions of judicial authority
are a function of the level of fragmentation/competition in the formal political sphere …

Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly
territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments …

Can courts really build democracy in a state emerging from authoritarian rule? This book
presents a searching critique of the contemporary global model of democracy-building for …

In the post-World War II era, the emergence of'area studies' marked a signal development in
the social sciences. As the social sciences evolved methodologically, however, many …