TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kureshi,Yasser
TI  - Seeking supremacy: the pursuit of judicial power in Pakistan 
T2  - Cambridge studies in law and society
SN  - 9781009025515 (ebook)
AV  - KPL3499 .K87 2022
U1  - 347.5491/014 23/eng/20220207
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - History
KW  - Judges
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Civil-military relations
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2022); Introduction -- Judiciary, rule of law and the military -- The Loyal Court (1947-1977) -- The Controlled Court (1977-1999: Part 1) -- Between the barracks and the bar (1977-1999: Part 2) -- The Confrontational Court (1999-2017) -- Epilogue : a judiciary fragmenting? -- Conclusion and comparative perspectives
N2  - The emergence of the judiciary as an assertive and confrontational center of power has been the most consequential new feature of Pakistan's political system. This book maps out the evolution of the relationship between the judiciary and military in Pakistan, explaining why Pakistan's high courts shifted from loyal deference to the military to open competition, and confrontation, with military and civilian institutions. Yasser Kureshi demonstrates that a shift in the audiences shaping judicial preferences explains the emergence of the judiciary as an assertive power center. As the judiciary gradually embraced less deferential institutional preferences, a shift in judicial preferences took place and the judiciary sought to play a more expansive and authoritative political role. Using this audience-based approach, Kureshi roots the judiciary in its political, social and institutional context, and develops a generalizable framework that can explain variation and change in judicial-military relations around the world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025515
ER  -