The International Comparison of Court Caseloads
The Experience of the European Working Group
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7907169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heleen F P Ietswaart (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 571-593 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053697 |
| OpenAlex | W2319889614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Drawing on the experience of the European working group for the comparative study of litigation patterns, the author assesses the possibilities and limits of longitudinal international comparisons. The major challenge is ensuring that what is compared is comparable. Overall national litigation data are not comparable as such; official statistics raise more questions than they answer. The problems lie in the (socio)legal categories used in various countries, consistency of registration over time, and differences in legal procedures. The author suggests that a more fruitful line of inquiry begins with sociolegal categories of problems (e.g., housing, debt) and searches for litigation patterns. Thus disaggregating litigation data has the additional advantage of allowing the use of problem-specific baselines, which makes for greater comparability of data
Group (periodic table · Political science · Comparative and International Law Studies · European and International Law Studies · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Psychology
The challenge of comparing EU Member States judicial data
On Surveying the Whole Legal Forest
Adversarial Legalism and American Government
The Development of Comparative Judicial Politics
National Politics and Resort to the European Commission on Human Rights
A cross-national data collaboration of domestic violence specialist courts
Political Frames and Legal Activity
The Infrastructure for Avoiding Civil Litigation
Afterword
Building a Scientific Comparative Judicial Politics and Arousing the Dragons of Antiscientism
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2021 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |