Concept information
Preferred term
law and political science
Definition
- Political scientists have played an important role in the law and society movement through wide ranging studies of various phenomena. Their research has tended to focus on the study of institutions, particularly judges and courts, differentials in the bargaining power of litigants, and the role of law in social movements. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Political Science, Law And]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- administrative decentralization
- administrative law and agency accountability
- apology in court
- appellate courts
- arms control
- Asian perspectives on human rights
- associations of judges
- authoritarian regimes and courts
- Chinese legalism
- civil liberties
- civil litigiousness
- civil trials
- constitutional courts
- court administration and reform
- court caseload statistics
- courts
- cultural heritage and patrimony
- doctrinal issues in constitutional law
- economics of administrative law and agencies
- economics of constitutional law
- elections
- freedom of expression
- globalization, governance, and democratic participation
- Hindu law
- international arbitration
- international courts
- international customary legal norms
- international human rights
- international trade
- judges (law)
- judicial activism
- judicial decision making
- judicial independence
- judicial inefficiency and delay
- judicial politicization
- judicial selection
- juries
- law and geography
- law and ideology
- law and power
- law and religion
- law and revolution
- law and the state
- lawmaking by courts
- lay judges
- legal harmonization
- legal interpretation and reasoning
- legislatures and lawmaking
- legitimacy
- national arbitration
- nongovernmental globalization
- nongovernmental organizations
- ombudsperson
- people's courts
- political dissent
- political participation and rights
- politics of administrative law and agencies
- politics of constitutional law
- positive law
- processes of judicial globalization
- processes of legislative globalization
- regulatory unreasonableness
- reparations for past harms
- resistance to economic globalization
- settlement
- sharia
- social contract
- socialist justice
- sovereignty and jurisdiction
- state, government, and legal order
- supranational constitutionalism
- supranational courts
- talmudic law
- transparency
- truth commissions
- use of experts in civil courts
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W4CT5C05-Z
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