The myth of judicial independence : criminal justice and the separation of powers / by McConville, Michael, Marsh, Luke, Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…The Legacy of the 1964 Rules -- 8. Rule of Law and Common Law -- 9. Constitutionalism and the Westminster Model -- 10. …”
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Democracy and autocracy in Eurasia : Georgia in transition / by Areshidze, Irakly

Table of Contents: “…Georgia's first democratic opening : independence and the failure of Gamsakhurdia's rule -- Georgia's second democratic opening : Shevardnadze's constitutional founding and the rise of Zhvania's "Young Reformers" -- Georgia's third democratic opening : Gamkrelidze and the collapse of the CUG -- 2002 local government elections and Zhvania's political rebirth -- Parties prepare for the parliamentary elections while the NGO community and Rustavi 2 prepare for the revolution -- Failure of the united opposition and failure of the Baker formula -- The final stretch : the fall campaign -- The Rose Revolution -- Dangers of new authoritarianism -- Saakashvili's constitution and legal one-man rule -- The rule of law and the rule of men -- Elections and imbalanced governance -- Media freedom, or lack thereof -- Civil society, illusionary and real.…”