Rule by law : the politics of courts in authoritarian regimes / edited by Tom Ginsburg, Tamir Moustafa.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Courts -- Political aspects.

Justice, Administration of -- Political aspects.

Political questions and judicial power.

Judicial process.

Authoritarianism.

1. Of judges and generals : security courts under authoritarian regimes in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

2. Administrative law and judicial control of agents in authoritarian regimes

3. Singapore : the exception that proves rules matter --4 . Agents of anti-politics : courts in Pinochet's Chile

5. Law and resistance in authoritarian states : the judicialization of politics in Egypt

6. Courts out of context : authoritarian sources of judicial failure in Chile (1973--1990) and Argentina (1976--1983)

7. Enforcing the autocratic political order and the role of courts : the case of Mexico

8. The institutional diffusion of courts in China : evidence from survey data

9. Building judicial independence in semi-democracies : Uganda and Zimbabwe

10. Judicial power in authoritarian states : the Russian experience

11. Courts in a semi-democratic authoritarian regime : the judicialization of Turkish and Iranian politics

12. Judicial systems and economic development

13. Courts in authoritarian regimes.

This volume brings together leading scholars in comparative judicial politics to consider the causes and consequences of judicial empowerment in authoritarian states.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-362) and index.

9780521720410

x, 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm