Response to Geoffrey Swenson’s Review of Domination Through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa

IF 4 1区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Mohamed Sesay
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democracy and the only country in Southeast Asia rated “free” by FreedomHouse. While domestic actors deserve the most credit, international assistance played a modest but important role. These inquiries, however, should not detract from the book’s many virtues. Chief among these is the rich, vivid, and persuasive account of legal, political, and economic development in Sierra Leone and Liberia that spans centuries. More broadly, the book offers a valuable corrective to the popular discourse that it is enough to simply focus on the state justice system and that anything claiming to be the rule of law should be taken at face value.
对杰弗里·斯文森《通过法律来统治》评论的回应:后殖民时期非洲法律规范的国际化
也是东南亚唯一一个被自由之家评为“自由”的国家。虽然国内行为者应该得到最大的赞誉,但国际援助发挥了适度但重要的作用。然而,这些质疑不应减损这本书的诸多优点。其中最主要的是对塞拉利昂和利比里亚跨越几个世纪的法律、政治和经济发展的丰富、生动和有说服力的描述。更广泛地说,这本书为一种流行的说法提供了有价值的纠正,即仅仅关注国家司法系统就足够了,任何声称是法治的东西都应该从表面上看。
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Perspectives on Politics
Perspectives on Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: Perspectives on Politics is a journal of broad interest to scholars across many fields, in addition to professional political scientists, political analysts, policy makers, and the informed public. Essays synthesize and extend significant research and developments in all dimensions of political science scholarship. In many cases, the journal aims to connect research findings, conceptual innovations, or theoretical developments to real problems of politics.
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