Can a judge become a politician in India?
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Open access•Journal Article | Similarly, everyone agrees that a judge may not sit in judgment in a case where he participated as a party or a lawyer. |
Open access•Posted Content 16 Citations | In other words, in the case of gender, a single judge on a panel who is of the opposite sex from the others, or in the case of political party, a single judge appointed by a different political party, is sufficient to eliminate the potential distorting influence of either variable. |
Thus, having merely the qualities of a lawyer will not qualify one to be a judge. | |
In addition, we find that even when executives are heavily constrained in their appointment of auditors by meritocratic and professional requirements, auditors still exhibit a pro-politician bias in decision making. | |
Thus, only after untying the knot that keeps the politician and the police together, India will have rule of law, and justice for all. | |
Open access•Posted Content 21 Citations | The case inaugurates a new phase in judicial activism and Public Interest Litigation in India, a subject that has been written about extensively both in India and elsewhere. |
12 Citations | Using a regression discontinuity design, whereby individuals living in districts where a criminal politician barely won are compared to individuals living in districts where a criminal politician barely lost, this paper shows that criminal politicians reduce bribe-taking behavior of law and order officials by 34 percent. |
Open access•Posted Content 18 Citations | We find that having a local ethnic politician in parliament increases the likelihood of being employed by 2-3 percentage points. |
Put differently, an authoring judge will have a greater tendency to cite legislative history by legislators who share political party affiliation with the colleagues and superiors of the authoring judge than legislators sharing the same political party affiliation as the authoring judge himself. | |
India must sensitize its politicians to the serious nature of the problem and develop nongovernmental organizations which can become involved. |