POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Body Politic, Transitional Justice
Document Summary
The judicialization of mega-politics and the rise of political. Courts. annual review of political science 11: 93 118. Institutionalist (cid:0) emphasizes institutional features that are hospitable to judicialization. At a bare minimum, the judicialization of politics requires acceptance of the rule of law. This court-centric approach is often advanced by scholars of supranational judicial organs. None of these four approaches takes the conceptualization of courts as political institutions seriously enough. Everything there can be no plain and simple definition of the judicialization of politics, either: the judicialization of mega-politics includes several types of controversies, not all of which are equally problematic for canonical constitutional theory. Nowhere is the judicialization of mega-politics more evident than in israel. Not a single week passes by without the supreme court of israel (sci) issuing a politically charged ruling that is widely reported by the media and closely watched by the political system.
