The Israeli Supreme Court and the Human Rights Revolution courts as agenda setters /

"This book explains the reciprocal relations between the Supreme Court and the Israeli political system. It is based on a unique approach that contends that the non-governability of the political system and an alternative political culture are two key formal and informal variables affecting the...

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Main Author: Meydani, Assaf
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The Intervention of the Israeli high court of justice in government decisions : an empirical, quantitative study with paradoxical results
  • Law and politics : theoretical aspects
  • The Supreme Court as a political entrepreneur in the process of institutional change - an analysis based on shared mental models and political entrepreneurship
  • Israeli public law
  • Israel in light of structural and cultural variables
  • The Supreme Court and the political system in light of social and political processes in Israel during 1948-1999
  • The struggle for a new conservative constitutional court (2000) : redefining the guarantor of human rights in Israel - the role of the Israeli Supreme Court
  • The rule of "who governs?" as electoral capital (1999-2007) : the Supreme Court as an agenda setter in Israel
  • The Supreme Court of Israel as an agenda setter : three cases
  • On law, society and policy design - towards a reform in the relationship between the high court of justice and the knesset.