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Her study of Israeli judicial politics is shrewd, sophisticated, culturally sensitive, and historically grounded ... Judicial Power and National Politics is a welcome addition to the scholarship on comparative judicial politics, and Patricia Woods is a welcome new voice in the field ... The impact of her work will cut across subfields and enrich the political science discipline. - The Law and Politics Book Review This well-written book makes an important contribution by pushing the analysis of the controversies surrounding judicial intervention/activism to take ideas seriously. It provides a very persuasive account of Israel's High Court of Justice's involvement in religious issues and the key role of the judicial community in precipitating that involvement. At the same time, Woods attends to the roles of institutional factors and social movements in facilitating the controversial rights actions/decisions of the HCJ. This book is a must read for scholars of law and politics. - Austin Sarat, Amherst College The author's notion of an extended judicial community of judges, academic lawyers, and cause lawyers is a major move forward in the 'new institutionalism' in the study of law and courts. - Martin Shapiro, Boalt Law School, University of California at Berkeley

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Patricia J. Woods is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida.

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