Informal Networks and Judicial Institutions: Comparative Perspectives
Guest Editor: Björn Dressel, Raul Sanchez-Urribarri and Alexander Stroh
Editorial Introduction
Courts and informal networks: Towards a relational perspective on judicial politics outside Western democracies
Björn Dressel, Raul Sanchez-Urribarri and Alexander Stroh
Articles
Who are judicial decisions meant for? The ‘global community of law’ in Southern Africa
Peter Brett
Sustaining and jeopardising a credible arbiter: Judicial networks in Benin’s consolidating democracy
Alexander Stroh
Informal networks and judicial decisions: Insights from the Supreme Court of the Philippines, 1986–2015
Björn Dressel and Tomoo Inoue
The moral economy of guanxi and the market of corruption: Networks, brokers and corruption in China’s courts
Ling Li
Anatomy of an informal institution: The ‘Gentlemen’s Pact’ and judicial selection in Mexico, 1917–1994
Andrea Pozas-Loyo and Julio Ríos-Figueroa
Patronal politics, judicial networks and collective judicial autonomy in post-Soviet Ukraine
Alexei Trochev
Research Report
Three decades of the International Political Science Review (IPSR): A map of the methodological preferences in IPSR articles
Enzo Lima, Melina Morschbacher and Paulo Peres
Review Article
The contributions of Jean A. Laponce to political science
William Safran
