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Law and Management: Comparatively Assessing the Reach of Judicialization

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Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century

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The concept of judicialization circumscribes a multiplicity of meanings. In this chapter, we focus on one of the ‘newest’ meanings of judicializa-tion, what Tate and Vallinder (1995b: 516) refer to as ‘Judicialization I’: judges and judicial institutions as policy makers complementing, substituting, or competing with politically accountable policy actors.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands

    Frits M. van der Meer (CAOP Professor of Comparative Civil Service and Public Sector Reform) & Jos C. N. Raadschelders (Professor and Associate Director of Faculty, affiliated Professor of Public Administration) (CAOP Professor of Comparative Civil Service and Public Sector Reform) &  (Professor and Associate Director of Faculty, affiliated Professor of Public Administration)

  2. John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State University, USA

    Jos C. N. Raadschelders (Professor and Associate Director of Faculty, affiliated Professor of Public Administration) (Professor and Associate Director of Faculty, affiliated Professor of Public Administration)

  3. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Theo A. J. Toonen (Dean, Chair in Institutional Governance and Public Administration) (Dean, Chair in Institutional Governance and Public Administration)

  4. Delft and Leiden University, The Netherlands

    Theo A. J. Toonen (Dean, Chair in Institutional Governance and Public Administration) (Dean, Chair in Institutional Governance and Public Administration)

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Christensen, R.K., Wise, C.R. (2015). Law and Management: Comparatively Assessing the Reach of Judicialization. In: van der Meer, F.M., Raadschelders, J.C.N., Toonen, T.A.J. (eds) Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491459_13

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