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'In this meticulous and elegant book, Kage uncovers the logic of the new role for juries in the judicial systems of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Spain. Her close comparisons over time and across cases allow her to understand why a country may choose to inaugurate a role for lay juries, and why and how jury systems vary. The patterns are best explained, Kage finds, by the preferences and relative power of 'new left' parties seeking to expand citizen participation in politics. This is theoretically-grounded empirical work at its best.' Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University, Connecticut 'This brilliant book offers a thoughtful, creative, and original analysis of lay participation in the criminal justice process. Kage, a rising star in the discipline of political science, is interested in understanding why a growing number of countries have invited the public to participate in criminal trials, and how such participation has influenced the power of judges and the treatment of criminal defendants. Her analysis, which focuses on Japan and includes significant research on Taiwan, Korea, and Spain, is a tour de force of comparative scholarship - historically rich, quantitatively and qualitatively sophisticated, and analytically laser-sharp. Who Judges? redefines the standard for work at the intersection of law and politics, and is indispensable reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japan, comparative politics, and public law.' Eric Feldman, University of Pennsylvania `In this meticulous and elegant book, Kage uncovers the logic of the new role for juries in the judicial systems of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Spain. Her close comparisons over time and across cases allow her to understand why a country may choose to inaugurate a role for lay juries, and why and how jury systems vary. The patterns are best explained, Kage finds, by the preferences and relative power of `new left' parties seeking to expand citizen participation in politics. This is theoretically-grounded empirical work at its best.' Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University, Connecticut `This brilliant book offers a thoughtful, creative, and original analysis of lay participation in the criminal justice process. Kage, a rising star in the discipline of political science, is interested in understanding why a growing number of countries have invited the public to participate in criminal trials, and how such participation has influenced the power of judges and the treatment of criminal defendants. Her analysis, which focuses on Japan and includes significant research on Taiwan, Korea, and Spain, is a tour de force of comparative scholarship - historically rich, quantitatively and qualitatively sophisticated, and analytically laser-sharp. Who Judges? redefines the standard for work at the intersection of law and politics, and is indispensable reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japan, comparative politics, and public law.' Eric Feldman, University of Pennsylvania

'In this meticulous and elegant book, Kage uncovers the logic of the new role for juries in the judicial systems of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Spain. Her close comparisons over time and across cases allow her to understand why a country may choose to inaugurate a role for lay juries, and why and how jury systems vary. The patterns are best explained, Kage finds, by the preferences and relative power of 'new left' parties seeking to expand citizen participation in politics. This is theoretically-grounded empirical work at its best.' Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University, Connecticut 'This brilliant book offers a thoughtful, creative, and original analysis of lay participation in the criminal justice process. Kage, a rising star in the discipline of political science, is interested in understanding why a growing number of countries have invited the public to participate in criminal trials, and how such participation has influenced the power of judges and the treatment of criminal defendants. Her analysis, which focuses on Japan and includes significant research on Taiwan, Korea, and Spain, is a tour de force of comparative scholarship - historically rich, quantitatively and qualitatively sophisticated, and analytically laser-sharp. Who Judges? redefines the standard for work at the intersection of law and politics, and is indispensable reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japan, comparative politics, and public law.' Eric Feldman, University of Pennsylvania

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Rieko Kage is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo. She is the author of Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society (Cambridge, 2011), which received the Jury's Prize from the Japan Nonprofit Organizations Research Association and Honorable Mention for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. She received her LL.B. and LL.M. in Law from Kyoto University, Japan and her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, Massachusetts.

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