After the Judicial Revolution

This book applies the regime politics model to analyze how a court of final appeal tends to operate within the broader political system. Focusing on Australia's High Court in the late 1980s and 90s, it examines how the court exercises judicial power and what happens when its decisions and methods run counter or challenge the government. It also enables assessment of where and how changes occur in substantive law, workload, and interactions with other branches of government. Ultimately, the book affirms the claims of regime politics scholarship that courts cannot stray for long from the dominant political regime's values and commitments, lest the regime invoke its tools to bring compliance.