Table of contents
Part I. Expanding Judicial Roles in New or Restored Democracies:
1. The politics of courts in democratization: four junctures in Asia Tom Ginsburg;
2. Fragmentation? Defection? Legitimacy? Explaining judicial roles in post-communist 'colored revolutions' Alexei Trochev;
3. Constitutional authority and judicial pragmatism: politics and law in the evolution of South Africa's constitutional court Heinz Klug;
4. Distributing political power: the constitutional tribunal in post-authoritarian Chile Druscilla L. Scribner;
5. The transformation of the Mexican Supreme Court into an arena for political contestation Monica Castillejos-Aragon;
Part II. Expanding Judicial Roles in Established Democracies:
6. Courts enforcing political accountability: the role of criminal justice in Italy Carlo Guarnieri;
7. The Dutch Hoge Raad: judicial roles played, lost, and not played Nick Huls;
8. A consequential court: the US Supreme Court in the twentieth century Robert A. Kagan;
9. Judicial constitution-making in a divided society - the Israeli case Amnon Reichman;
10. Public interest litigation and the transformation of the Supreme Court of India Manoj Mate;
11. The judicial dynamics of the French and European fundamental rights revolution Mitchel de S.-O.-l'E. Lasser;
12. Constitutional courts as bulwarks of secularism Ran Hirschl;
Part III. Four 'Provocations':
13. Why the legal complex is integral to theories of consequential courts Terence C. Halliday;
14. Judicial power: getting it and keeping it John Ferejohn;
15. Out of phase: politics, regimes, and regime politics Mark A. Graber;
16. The mighty problem continues Martin Shapiro;
17. Conclusion: of judicial ships and winds of change Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein and Robert A. Kagan.