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Building a Scientific Comparative Judicial Politics and Arousing the Dragons of Antiscientism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

C. Neal Tate  and
Stacia L. Haynie
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Following both Pritchett and Gibson, we thought we were, in “Authoritarianism and the Functions of Courts” (Tate & Haynie 1993), extolling the virtues of an infrequently grown, but potentially beautiful or even useful, floral species: falsifiable, reproducible research on the role of courts outside the United States of America. Indeed, because our bloom grew outside the well-cultivated plots of the industrialized democracies, we thought it might be of still greater interest to the horticultural community of sociolegal studies. Thus we urged the members of that community to try their own hands at growing this rare blossom.

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Of Dragons, Flowers, and Constructing a Science: An Exchange
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Law & Society Review , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , 1994 , pp. 377 - 394
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Copyright © 1997 by The Law and Society Association.

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