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The Political Foundations of Judicial Independence in Dictatorship and Democracy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n (Oxford University Press, 2019) The Political Foundations of Judicial Independence in Dictatorship and Democracy <\/em>offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical inquiry by employing an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach.<\/p>\n This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics requires a perspective that spans the democracy\/autocracy divide. Rather than seeking separate explanations in each regime context, in The Political Foundations of Judicial Independence in Dictatorship and Democracy<\/em>, Brad Epperly argues that political competition is a salient factor in determining levels of de facto judicial independence across regime type, and in autocracies a factor of far greater import. This is because a full “insurance” account of independence requires looking not only at the likelihood those in power might lose elections but also the variable risks associated with such an outcome, risks that are far higher for autocrats. First demonstrating that courts can and do provide insurance to former leaders, he then shows via exhaustive cross-national analyses that competition’s effects are far higher in autocratic regimes, providing the first evidence for the causal nature of the relationship. Epperly argues that these findings differ from existing case study research because in democratic regimes, a lack of political competition means incumbents target the de jure independence of courts. This argument is illustrated via in-depth case study of the Hungarian Constitutional Court after the country’s 2010 “constitutional coup,” and then tested globally. Blending formal theory, observational and instrumental variables models, and elite interviews of leading Hungarian legal scholars and judges, Epperly offers a new framework for understanding judicial independence that integrates explanations of both de jure and de facto independence in both democratic and autocratic regimes.<\/p>\n (Description Source: Oxford University Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n Brad Epperly<\/strong> is an assistant professor of Political Science at UBC Okanagan. His research on the rule of law appears in numerous journals, including Comparative Political Studies<\/em>, Perspectives on Politics<\/em>, and the Journal of Law and Courts<\/em>. His research interests revolve around various facets of the rule of law, including judicial independence, corruption, and equality before the law, generally in the context of Eastern European\/post-communist politics.<\/p>\n https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4v23azun<\/a><\/p>\n From the Publisher \u2013 Oxford University Press<\/a> eBook ISBN: 9780192583659 The\u00a0University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em>\u00a0aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/p>\n Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/p>\n
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