eprintid: 25364
rev_number: 35
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userid: 4018
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datestamp: 2020-11-26 08:46:55
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type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Fischer, Alexander
title: The Judicialisation of Politics in India: Origins and Consequences of the Power of the Indian Supreme Court
subjects: ddc-320
subjects: ddc-340
subjects: ddc-950
divisions: i-180500
adv_faculty: af-18
keywords: Judicial politics, Judicial review, Judicial power, Comparative constitutional law, Constitutional courts
cterms_swd: Indien. Supreme Court
cterms_swd: Judicial power
cterms_swd: Indien. Government
cterms_swd: Rechtsprechende Gewalt
cterms_swd: Verfassungsrecht
cterms_swd: Indien. Constitution
cterms_swd: Verfassungspolitik
cterms_swd: Verfassungsänderung
cterms_swd: Rechtsvergleich
cterms_swd: Vergleichende politische Wissenschaft
cterms_swd: Vergleichende Verfassungsforschung
cterms_swd: Rechtspolitik
cterms_swd: Verfassungsgericht
cterms_swd: Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit
abstract: This thesis is a longitudinal study of judicial power in India and captures the history of the Supreme Court from the perspective of positive political theory. Combining measurements of competitiveness of political participation with quantitative indicators that describe the court as a composite actor, the thesis identifies both the structuration of opportunities for judicial power expansion as well as critical junctures resulting from the court’s strategic choices. Each chapter combines empirical data and historiographic narratives to portray such phases of institutional flux, re-conceptualizing the overall trend towards judicial power expansion as distinct sequences of judicial overreach, jurisdiction stripping, and judicial self-empowerment alternating between regime supportive judicial activism and judicial assertiveness. Like all good dependent variables the power of the Indian Supreme Court thus varies over time, while the theoretical frameworks for tying together this thesis always derive from the same paradigm of separation-of-power-games, drawing on strategic approaches in judicialization studies to explain juristocratic patterns of judicial power expansion in India.
date: 2020
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00025364
ppn_swb: 1741816475
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-253645
date_accepted: 2015-12-21
advisor: HASH(0x561a619d7a10)
language: eng
bibsort: FISCHERALETHEJUDICIA2020
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Fischer, Alexander  (2020) The Judicialisation of Politics in India: Origins and Consequences of the Power of the Indian Supreme Court.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/25364/1/FISCHER%20Judicialisation%20of%20Politics.pdf