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From Democracy to Juristocracy

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Guarneri Carlo and Pederzoli Patrizia, From Democracy to Juristocracy? The Power of Judges: A Comparative Study of Courts and Democracy, Thomas C. A., English editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 235 pages. $75.00 cloth.
Sweet Alec Stone, Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 232 pages. $75.00 cloth; $27.50 paper.
Hirschl Ran, Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 294 pages. $49.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Leslie Friedman Goldstein
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Law & Society Review , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 611 - 629
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