Global perspectives on the rule of law / edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan.
2010
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Title
Global perspectives on the rule of law / edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Call Number
K3171 .G58 2010
ISBN
9780415499552 (hbk)
0415499550 (hbk)
9780203870594 (ebk)
020387059X (ebk)
0415499550 (hbk)
9780203870594 (ebk)
020387059X (ebk)
Description
xvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)311036683
Note
"A GlassHouse book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-324) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of illustrations
ix
Notes on contributors
xii
Acknowledgements
xv
A preface and an introduction / Lee Cabatingan
1
pt. I
Assessing rule of law development
15
1.
Rule of law temptations / Thomas Carothers
17
2.
Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule of law / Barry R. Weingast
28
pt. II
Global justice and the world community
53
3.
Global justice / Amartya Sen
55
4.
The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice: a historical perspective / Timur Kuran
71
pt. III
Rule of law and economic development
91
5.
The viability of the welfare state / James J. Heckman
93
6.
Comparing legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Jun "Qi" Qian
118
7.
Law, finance, and the first corporations / Ron Harris
145
pt. IV
Rule of law and political development
173
8.
The politics of courts in democratization / Tom Ginsburg
175
9.
Principled principals in the founding moments of the rule of law / Brad Epperly
192
10.
The fight for basic legal freedoms: mobilization by the legal complex / Terence C. Halliday
210
11.
Social norms, rule of law, and gender reality: an essay on the limits of the dominant rule of law paradigm / Amrit Amirapu
241
12.
Constitutionalism and the challenge of ethnic diversity / Yash Ghai
279
References
303
Index
325