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LAW AND
POLITICS
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Edited by
KEITH E. WHITTINGTON
R . DA N I E L K E L E M E N
and
G R E G O RY A . C A L D E I R A
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Contents
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PA RT I I N T RO D U C T I O N
1. The Study of Law and Politics 3
Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen,
& Gregory A. Caldeira
PA RT I I A P P ROAC H E S
2. Judicial Behavior 19
Jeffrey A. Segal
3. Strategic Judicial Decision Making 34
Pablo T. Spiller & Rafael Gely
4. Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Law 46
Rogers M. Smith
PA RT I I I C O M PA R AT I V E J U D I C I A L P O L I T I C S
5. The Rule of Law and Courts in Democratizing Regimes 63
Rebecca Bill Chavez
6. The Global Spread of Constitutional Review 81
Tom Ginsburg
7. Establishing and Maintaining Judicial Independence 99
Georg Vanberg
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PA RT I V I N T E R NAT I O NA L A N D
S U P R A NAT I O NA L L AW
11. International Law and International Relations 187
Beth Simmons
12. The European Court of Justice and European Legal Integration:
An Exceptional Story or Harbinger of the Future? 209
Karen J. Alter
13. War Crimes Tribunals 229
Gary J. Bass
14. The Globalization of the Law 245
Bryant G. Garth
contents vii
PA RT V I S O U RC E S O F L AW A N D T H E O R I E S
O F J U R I S P RU D E N C E
22. Natural Law 399
Robert P. George
23. Rights in Legal and Political Philosophy 414
Matthew H. Kramer
24. Formalism: Legal, Constitutional, Judicial 428
Frederick Schauer
25. Feminist Theory and the Law 437
Judith A. Baer
26. The Racial Subject in Legal Theory 451
Sheila Foster & R. A. Lenhardt
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PA RT V I I I T H E P O L I T I C A L A N D
P O L I C Y E N V I RO N M E N T O F C O U RT S
I N T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S
32. Judicial Independence 557
Frank Cross
33. Law and Regulation 576
Susan Rose-Ackerman
34. Law as an Instrument of Social Reform 595
Charles R. Epp
35. Criminal Justice and the Police 614
Wesley G. Skogan
36. Law and Political Ideologies 626
Julie Novkov
37. Courts and the Politics of Partisan Coalitions 644
Howard Gillman
38. Understanding Regime Change: Public Opinion, Legitimacy,
and Legal Consciousness 663
Scott Barclay & Susan S. Silbey
PA RT I X I N T E R D I S C I P L I NA RY A P P ROAC H E S
TO L AW A N D P O L I T I C S
39. Law and Society 681
Lynn Mather
40. The Analysis of Courts in the Economic Analysis of Law 698
Lewis A. Kornhauser
41. Psychology and the Law 711
Tom R. Tyler
42. Law and History 723
Christopher Tomlins
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Index 000
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