{"product_id":"courts-and-democracies-in-asia-hardback-9781107192621","title":"Courts and Democracies in Asia (Hardback) 9781107192621","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCourts and Democracies in Asia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePo Jen Yap (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107192621, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 September 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Professor Yap's elegant, concise book is an important contribution to comparative constitutional studies … Yap's book is a major advance in integrating Asian constitutionalism into comparative constitutionalism more generally and into the comparative law of democracy in particular.' Richard H. Pildes, ICON\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat is the relationship between the strength of a country's democracy and the ability of its courts to address deficiencies in the electoral process? Drawing a distinction between democracies that can be characterised as 'dominant-party' (for example Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong), 'dynamic' (for example India, South Korea, and Taiwan), and 'fragile' (for example Thailand, Pakistan ,and Bangladesh), this book explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power. In dominant-party systems, courts can only pursue 'dialogic' pathways to constrain the government's authoritarian tendencies. On the other hand, in dynamic democracies, courts can more successfully innovate and make systemic changes to the electoral system. Finally, in fragile democracies, where a country regularly oscillates between martial law and civilian rule, their courts tend to consistently overreach, and this often facilitates or precipitates a hostile take-over by the armed forces, and lead to the demise of the rule of law.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Dominant-Party Democracies: 2. Supreme Court of Singapore and the promise of enforceable constitutional conventions\u003cbr\u003e 3. Malaysian courts and electoral fraud\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hong Kong Courts and constitutional contradictions\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Dynamic Democracies: 5. Supreme Court of India and criminality in politics\u003cbr\u003e 6. Constitutional court of Taiwan and calibrated judicial review\u003cbr\u003e 7. Constitutional court of Korea and systemic electoral barriers\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Fragile Democracies: 8. Constitutional court of Thailand and partisan judges\u003cbr\u003e 9. Supreme Court of Pakistan: accommodation and defiance of military authority\u003cbr\u003e 10. Supreme Court of Bangladesh and defensive judicial review\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Democratic Values and Courts in Comparative Perspective: 11. Democratic values and the conundrum of unconstitutional constitutional amendments\u003cbr\u003e 12. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Judicial review [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Judicial review\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Judicial%20review%20%5BLNDM%5D%22\"\u003eLNDM\u003c\/a\u003e], Legal system: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Legal system: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Legal%20system:%20general%20%5BLNA%5D%22\"\u003eLNA\u003c\/a\u003e], Law \u0026amp; society [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Law \u0026amp; society\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Law%20\u0026amp;%20society%20%5BLAQ%5D%22\"\u003eLAQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Systems of law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Systems of law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Systems%20of%20law%20%5BLAF%5D%22\"\u003eLAF\u003c\/a\u003e], Political structures: democracy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structures: democracy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structures:%20democracy%20%5BJPHV%5D%22\"\u003eJPHV\u003c\/a\u003e], Political structure \u0026amp; processes [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structure \u0026amp; processes\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structure%20\u0026amp;%20processes%20%5BJPH%5D%22\"\u003eJPH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006027518232,"sku":"9781107192621","price":99.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107192621i_f2dacf57-dee4-4f7f-b5c9-5b0349a60014.jpg?v=1691362687","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/courts-and-democracies-in-asia-hardback-9781107192621","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}