Prosecutors and Democracy: A Cross-National Study
Máximo Langer, David Alan Sklansky - Cambridge University Press, 26 ott 2017
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| Anteprima |
Focusing
on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume
throws light on key questions about prosecutors and the role they should
play in liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars
discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes
undermine it, and why it has proven so challenging to hold prosecutors
accountable while insulating them from politics. The contributors
explore the different ways legal systems have addressed that challenge
in the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe.
Contrasting those strategies allows an assessment of their relative
strengths - and a richer understanding of the contested connections
between law and democratic politics. Chapters are in explicit
conversation with each other, facilitating comparison and deepening the
analysis. This is an important new resource for legal scholars and
reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.
