In recent years, the judicialization of politics worldwide has expanded its scope to
encompass what we may term “mega-politics”—matters of outright and utmost political …

With the enormous expansion of scholarship on this subject,“rule of law” has come to mean
different things—ranging from security and order to the operations of courts and the …

Over the last few decades the world has witnessed a profound transfer of power from
representative institutions to judiciaries, whether domestic or supranational. The concept of …

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We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures
control bureaucrats with career concerns and the consequent implications for bureaucrats' …

Is the death penalty a more effective deterrent than lengthy prison sentences? Does a
judge's gender influence their decisions? Do independent judiciaries promote economic …

Although intellectual interest in the international migration of constitutional ideas has been
growing steadily over the last decade, the field of comparative constitutional law remains …

Among political scientists, not only is it uncontroversial to say that judges seek to etch their
political values into law; it would be near heresy to suggest otherwise. And yet this article …

Over the past two decades the world has witnessed an astonishingly rapid transition to what
may be called juristocracy. Around the globe, in numerous countries and in several …

Good government must avoid bad decisions. Because contemporary governments tend to
undertake an ambitious range of social and economic regulation, they can do tremendous …