The Japanese Journal of Law and Political Science
Online ISSN : 2432-1559
Print ISSN : 0386-5266
ISSN-L : 0386-5266
Comparing Democracies and Judicial System
Takashi Tomisaki
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2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 77-85

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Judicial system is very important in liberal democracy. But existing comparative studies of liberal democracy including Lijphart(1984)model does not analyze judicial system sufficiently. In this article I analyze it. To be concrete, I examine relationship democracy types("pluralism vs.corporatism"index, "majoritarian democracy vs.consensus democracy"index and complex index of Lijphart and Crepaz(1995))and judicial system(legal systems, court systems and lawyer population). I find first that there is interrelation between legal systems and various democracy types, second that court systems have weak relationship with democracy types, but adoption of the jury system have little relation with democracy types, third that lawyer population and democracy types are correlated. Consensus and corporatstic democracies tend to have less lawyer population.
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