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245 0 0 _aGlobal perspectives on the rule of law /
_cedited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2010.
300 _axvi, 342 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
500 _a"A GlassHouse book"--T.p. verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-324) and index.
505 0 0 _aRule-of-law temptations / Thomas Carothers -- Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule-of-law / Barry R. Weingast -- Global justice / Amartya Sen -- The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice : a historical perspective / Timur Kuran -- The viability of the welfare state / James J. Heckman -- Comparing legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Franklin Allen and Jun Q.J. Qian -- Law, finance, and the first corporations / Ron Harris -- The politics of courts in democratization / Thomas Ginsburg -- Principled principals in the founding moments of the rule-of-law / Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly -- The fight for basic legal freedoms : mobilization by the legal complex / Terence C. Halliday -- Social norms, rule of law, and gender reality : an essay on the limits of the dominant rule-of-law paradigm / Katharina Pistor, Antara Haldar, and Amrit Amirapu -- Constitutionalism and the challenge of ethnic diversity / Yash Ghai.
520 _aGlobal Perspectives on the Rule of Law is a collection of original research on the rule of law from a panel of leading economists, political scientists, legal scholars, sociologists and historians. The chapters critically analyze the meaning and foundations of the rule of law and its relationship to economic and democratic development, challenging many of the underlying assumptions guiding the burgeoning field of rule of law development. The combination of jurisprudential, quantitative, historical/comparative, and theoretical analyses seeks to chart a new course in scholarship on t.
650 0 _aRule of law.
650 4 _aEstado de derecho
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700 1 _aCabatingan, Lee
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