Global perspectives on the rule of law [electronic resource] / edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan.

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Series: Law, development and globalizationPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.Description: xvi, 342 p. : illISBN:

9780203870594

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Rule of law

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"A GlassHouse book."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-324) and index.

Rule-of-law temptations / Thomas Carothers -- Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule-of-law / Barry R. Weingast -- Global justice / Amartya Sen -- The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice : a historical perspective / Timur Kuran -- The viability of the welfare state / James J. Heckman -- Comparing legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Franklin Allen and Jun Q.J. Qian -- Law, finance, and the first corporations / Ron Harris -- The politics of courts in democratization / Thomas Ginsburg -- Principled principals in the founding moments of the rule-of-law / Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly -- The fight for basic legal freedoms : mobilization by the legal complex / Terence C. Halliday -- Social norms, rule of law, and gender reality : an essay on the limits of the dominant rule-of-law paradigm / Katharina Pistor, Antara Haldar, and Amrit Amirapu -- Constitutionalism and the challenge of ethnic diversity / Yash Ghai.

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