Rule by Law: Tom Ginsburg

Edition: 2008

Rule by Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes

1. Introduction

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

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

4. Singapore: the exception that proves rules matter

5. Judicial independence in authoritarian regimes: insights from Chile

6. Law and resistance in authoritarian states: the Egyptian case

7. Courts out of context: the authoritarian sources of judicial failure in Chile (1973-90) and Argentina (1976-83)

8. An authoritarian enclave? The supreme court in Mexico’s emerging democracy

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

10. Building judicial independence in semi-democracies: Uganda and Tanzania

11. Judicial power in authoritarian states: the Russian experience

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

13. Judicial systems and economic development

14. Courts in authoritarian regimes