Prosecutors and Democracy: A Cross-National Study

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. Focuses on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, shedding light on a critical area of study that has received little sustained examination before Takes a cross-national perspective, examining and comparing prosecutors in different nations, facilitating a deeper and more revealing analysis for students and scholars of the field Employs a range of different methodologies throughout the book, providing a detailed investigation of prosecutors and democracy from varied perspectives, entering into explicit conversation with each other over the twelve chapters and drawing on a broad command of multiple relevant literatures

• ISBN: 9781107187559
• Editorial: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Encuadernacion: Tela
• Páginas: 360
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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