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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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2365

Klassifikation
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
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
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Voigt, Stefan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Voigt, Stefan
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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