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The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective.Charles R. Epp
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Rule by law : the politics of courts in authoritarian regimes
Tom Ginsburg,Tamir Moustafa +1 more
TL;DR: Gatesburg and Moustafa as discussed by the authors discussed the role of judges and generals in the formation of security courts under authoritarian regimes in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, as well as their role in judicial failure in Chile and Mexico.
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Weighing both sides: morality, mortality, and framing contests over obesity.
Abigail C. Saguy,Kevin Riley +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that notions of morality play a central role in the controversy over obesity, as in many medical disputes, and how medical arguments about body weight can be used to stymie rights claims and justify morality-based fears is illustrated.
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The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina Under Dictatorship and Democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-level account of judicial decision-making in contexts where judges face institutional insecurity was developed, showing that under certain conditions the lack of judicial independence motivates judges to "strategically defect" against the government once it begins losing power.
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Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take stock of the literature on how European Union policies are being put into practice by the member states, and summarize the most important theoretical, empirical and methodological lessons to be drawn from existing studies, and discuss promising avenues for future research.
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Legislative-Judicial Relations: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Constitutional Review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a simple game-theoretic model that provides a unified account of the multi-faceted interactions between such courts and the legislatures they are, at least in part, intended to control.
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Rule by law : the politics of courts in authoritarian regimes
Tom Ginsburg,Tamir Moustafa +1 more
TL;DR: Gatesburg and Moustafa as discussed by the authors discussed the role of judges and generals in the formation of security courts under authoritarian regimes in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, as well as their role in judicial failure in Chile and Mexico.
Journal ArticleDOI
Weighing both sides: morality, mortality, and framing contests over obesity.
Abigail C. Saguy,Kevin Riley +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that notions of morality play a central role in the controversy over obesity, as in many medical disputes, and how medical arguments about body weight can be used to stymie rights claims and justify morality-based fears is illustrated.
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The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina Under Dictatorship and Democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-level account of judicial decision-making in contexts where judges face institutional insecurity was developed, showing that under certain conditions the lack of judicial independence motivates judges to "strategically defect" against the government once it begins losing power.
Journal ArticleDOI
Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take stock of the literature on how European Union policies are being put into practice by the member states, and summarize the most important theoretical, empirical and methodological lessons to be drawn from existing studies, and discuss promising avenues for future research.
Journal ArticleDOI
Legislative-Judicial Relations: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Constitutional Review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a simple game-theoretic model that provides a unified account of the multi-faceted interactions between such courts and the legislatures they are, at least in part, intended to control.