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What Is Political About Jurisprudence? Courts, Politics, and Political Science in Europe and the United States

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Rehder,  Britta
Institutioneller Wandel im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Rehder, B. (2010). What Is Political About Jurisprudence? Courts, Politics, and Political Science in Europe and the United States. Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, 2(1), 100-129.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-C4F0-0
Abstract
This paper reflects on the literature on courts and politics in Europe and the United States. US-American Political Science has dealt for several decades already with the role of courts and judges as political actors, whereas this perspective has only recently emerged in Europe. The debates differ not only with regard to the number of articles, but also with regard to their content. This paper discusses the different research perspectives that are being pursued on both sides of the Atlantic. While a major part of the US-American literature investigates the politics of judicial action and the politicization of the legal system, research on European courts confines itself to analyzing the effects of judicial action, often describing them in terms of juridification. Based on a review of the existing literature, this paper suggests that European scholars ought to take crucial assumptions of the USAmerican research tradition more seriously.