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The delivery of justice is a core function of the modern state. The
recent introduction of jury/lay judge systems for criminal trials
in Japan, South Korea, Spain, and perhaps soon Taiwan represents a
potentially major reform of this core function, shifting decision
making authority from professional judges to ordinary citizens. But
the four countries chose to empower their citizens to markedly
different degrees. Why? Who Judges? is the first book to offer a
systematic account for why different countries design their new
jury/lay judge systems in very different ways. Drawing on detailed
theoretical analysis, original case studies, and content analysis
of fifty years of Japanese parliamentary debates, the book reveals
that the relative power of 'new left'-oriented political parties
explains the different magnitudes of reform in the four countries.
Rieko Kage's vital new study opens up an exciting new area of
research for comparative politics and socio-legal studies.
The delivery of justice is a core function of the modern state. The
recent introduction of jury/lay judge systems for criminal trials
in Japan, South Korea, Spain, and perhaps soon Taiwan represents a
potentially major reform of this core function, shifting decision
making authority from professional judges to ordinary citizens. But
the four countries chose to empower their citizens to markedly
different degrees. Why? Who Judges? is the first book to offer a
systematic account for why different countries design their new
jury/lay judge systems in very different ways. Drawing on detailed
theoretical analysis, original case studies, and content analysis
of fifty years of Japanese parliamentary debates, the book reveals
that the relative power of 'new left'-oriented political parties
explains the different magnitudes of reform in the four countries.
Rieko Kage's vital new study opens up an exciting new area of
research for comparative politics and socio-legal studies.
Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education,
and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid
rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War
II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question
with a new general theory of the growth in civic engagement in
postwar democracies. It argues that wartime mobilization
unintentionally instills civic skills in the citizenry, thus laying
the groundwork for a postwar civic engagement boom. Meanwhile,
legacies of prewar associational activities shape the costs of
association-building and information-gathering, thus affecting the
actual extent of the postwar boom. Combining original data
collection, rigorous statistical methods, and in-depth historical
case analyses, this book illuminates one of the keys to making
postwar democracies work.
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