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The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the field of law and politics in all its diversity, ranging from such traditional subjects as theories of jurisprudence, constitutionalism, judicial politics and law and society to such re-emerging subjects as comparative judicial politics, international law, and democratization. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics gathers together leading scholars in the field to assess key literatures shaping the discipline today and to help set the direction of research in the decade ahead.

Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy; Constitutional Interpretation; and Constitutional Construction. He pursues research in the fields of constitutional theory, American political and constitutional development, and American political institutions.
R. Daniel Kelemen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Rules of Federalism. He pursues research in the fields of the politics of the European Union, comparative political economy, and federalism and environmental policy.
Gregory A. Caldeira is Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Law at Ohio State University. He pursues research and teaching in the fields of judicial processes in the United States and Europe, organized interests, and American political institutions. His publications on these subjects have appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science. He is former chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, former editor of the American Journal of Political Science, and former president of the Midwest Political Science Association.

Introduction
Approaches
Judicial Behavior
Strategic Action
Historical Institutionalism
Sociological Perspectives
Comparative Judicial Politics
Rule of Law, Courts, and Economic Development
Rule of Law and Courts in Democratizing Regimes
The Global Spread of Constitutional Review
Establishing and Maintaining Judicial Independence
Judicialization of Politics?
Federalism
Emergency and Prerogative Powers
International and Supranational Law
International Law
The European Court of Justice and European Legal Integration
War Crimes Tribunals
The Globalization of the Law
Forms of Legal Order
Civil Law and Common Law: Toward Convergence?, Ugo Mattei and Luca Pes
Constitutionalism
Constitutional Law
Legal Structures of Democracy
Administrative Law
Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
Informal and Private Dispute Resolution
Sources of Law and Theories of Jurisprudence
Positivism
Natural Law
Rights Liberalism
Formalism and Its Discontents
Feminist Theory
Race and Legal Theory
The American Judicial Context
Filling the Bench
The U.S. Supreme Court
Relations Among Courts
Litigation and the Mobilization of Law
Legal Profession
The Public and the Courts
The Political and Policy Environment of Courts in the United States
Judicial Independence
Law and Regulation
Law as an Instrument of Social Reform
Criminal Justice and Police
Law and Political Ideologies
Courts and Political Partisan Regimes
Legal Consciousness, Scott Barclay and Susan Silbey
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Politics
Law and Society
Law and Economics
Law and Psychology
Law and Literature
Law and History
Old and New Stuart Scheingold
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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics

0199208425

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