Judiciary and judicial behaviour

Lee Epstein, Urška Šadl and Keren Weinshall

Chapter 22 in Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, 2024, pp 347-361 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of United States scholars - and mostly political scientists at that - researchers throughout the world are drawing on history, economics, law, and psychology to illuminate how and why judges make the choices they do. Our goal is to supply an introduction to this exciting field with an eye toward encouraging even more social scientists to contribute with studies of their own. To that end, the second section provides a foreword to the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour, emphasizing the goals and the range of questions that come under the field’s reach. The third section surveys the major approaches to which scholars turn to develop research questions and generate possible answers. The fourth section delves into the range of data sources and methods used to assess the possible answers and evaluate findings. Throughout, we flag opportunities for future research.

Keywords: Politics; and; Public; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781803929095.00030 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21846_22

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().