TY - BOOK AU - Garoupa,Nuno AU - Ginsburg,Tom TI - Judicial reputation: a comparative theory SN - 9780226290621 AV - K2146 .G374 2016 U1 - 347.01401 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Judges KW - Judicial process KW - Public opinion KW - Judicial ethics KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Jurisprudence & general issues KW - thema KW - Comparative law KW - International law KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law N1 - Previously issued in print: 2015; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on their reputations to secure compliance with their decisions, obtain resources, and maintain their political influence. In 'Judicial Reputation', Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg explain how reputation is not only an essential quality of the judiciary as a whole, but also of individual judges UR - http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226290621.001.0001/upso-9780226290591 ER -