Beschreibung:
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The global expansion of human rights has shifted modes of political
engagement in significant ways. This article analyzes this shift as one
towards "judicial agency," where an increasingly dense web of legal rights
mediated by judicial and administrative bodies enables the individual to
bypass traditional democratic forms of political mobilization. Through
this new mode of political engagement, litigants challenge legislative
and executive authority as they cross organizational and even national
boundaries through a "nesting process," seeking judicial ways through
which they can restructure rules and norms over a range of issues. This
development is particularly marked in the European Union.
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