The Israeli Supreme Court and the Human Rights Revolution: Courts as Agenda Setters

ISBN: 9781107674837 出版年：2011 页码：224 Assaf Meydani Cambridge University Press

1. Introduction 2. The intervention of the Israeli High Court of Justice in government decisions: an empirical, quantitative study with paradoxical results 3. Law and politics: theoretical aspects 4. The Supreme Court as a political entrepreneur in the process of institutional change - an analysis based on shared mental models and political entrepreneurship 5. Israeli public law 6. Israel in light of structural and cultural variables 7. The Supreme Court and the political system in light of social and political processes in Israel during 1948-99 8. The struggle for a new conservative constitutional court (2000): redefining the guarantor of human rights in Israel - the role of the Israeli Supreme Court 9. The rule of 'who governs' as electoral capital (1999-2007): the Supreme Court as an agenda setter in Israel 10. The Supreme Court of Israel as an agenda setter: three cases 11. On law, society and policy design - towards a reform in the relationship between the High Court of Justice and the Knesset 12. Conclusion and normative implications.