Arbeitspapier
The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts: a cross-country analysis
Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can be interpreted as a renunciation of an additional division of labor, which is expected to cause foregone benefits in terms of the costs as well as the quality of judicial decision-making. In order to be justified, these foregone benefits need to be overcompensated by other - actually realized - benefits of at least the same magnitude. This paper discusses pros and cons of lay participation, presents a new database and tests some of the theoretically derived hypotheses empirically. The effects of lay participation on the judicial system, a number of governance variables but also on economic performance indicators are rather modest. A proxy representing historic experiences with any kind of lay participation is the single most robust variable.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 2008,20
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought through 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Public Goods
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
Litigation Process
Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
- Thema
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Economic Effects of Legal Systems
Judicial Decision-Making
Trial by Jury
Jurors
Lay Assessors
Constitutional Economics
Civil Society
Quality of Governance
History of Thought
Gerichtsbarkeit
Bürgerbeteiligung
Rechtsprechung
Makroökonomischer Einfluss
Politisches System
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Voigt, Stefan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
- (wo)
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Marburg
- (wann)
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2008
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Voigt, Stefan
- Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Entstanden
- 2008
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