Demand for litigation in the absence of traditions of rule of law: an example of Ottoman and Habsburg legacies in Romania

Martin Mendelski () and Alexander Libman ()

Constitutional Political Economy, 2014, vol. 25, issue 2, 177-206

Abstract: The paper investigates the impact of historical legacies of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires on demand for litigation in contemporary Romania in criminal cases. It finds that nowadays a key difference between these two historical zones is that in the Habsburg counties demand for litigation increases if the income goes up; in the Ottoman counties, however, the demand remains constant. Furthermore, the demand for litigation in poor counties is smaller in Habsburg than in Ottoman counties. We provide several explanations to this phenomenon and compare it to the anecdotal evidence of culture of judicial appeals in other countries. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Law and economics; Legal history; Historical legacies; Judicial performance; Contextual factors; Demand for litigation; Habsburg legacy; Ottoman legacy; K41; N43; P26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s10602-014-9158-y

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