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Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases

Tom Ginsburg · Cambridge University Press · 2003

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Book
Author
Tom Ginsburg
Identifier
DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511511189
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2026-09-01

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DisputedWhether strong judicial review is democratically legitimate is disputed: Waldron argues that in societies with working democratic institutions, where citizens disagree about rights, courts protect rights no better than legislatures and review is democratically illegitimate; Ginsburg argues that review can facilitate democracy by giving prospective electoral losers 'insurance'.