Seeking Supremacy The Pursuit Of Judicial Power In Pakistan Yasser Kureshi by Yasser Kureshi instant download after payment.

centre 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 centre. 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.

Yasser Kureshi is the John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow in constitutional theory and law at the University of Oxford. His research concerns the military and the judiciary and their impact on constitutional

configurations and democratic outcomes in authoritarian and postauthoritarian states. His other research interests include democratic backsliding in South Asia, coup legitimation strategies, federalism and the

making of legal cultures. His work has appeared in the Journal of

Comparative Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution and Democratization