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Authoritarianism and the Functions of Courts: A Time Series Analysis of the Philippine Supreme Court, 1961–1987

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

C. Neal Tate  and
Stacia L. Haynie
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Abstract

Focusing on the independent and powerful pre–martial law Philippine Supreme Court, we investigate the impact of the establishment and breakdown of authoritarianism on the court's performance of the functions of conflict resolution, social control, and administration. We develop hypotheses concerning and models of the impacts of the onset, consolidation, and breakdown of martial law authoritarianism under Ferdinand Marcos on that court's handling of the three functions. Using Box-Jenkins time series analysis methods, we assess the impacts of the onset, consolidation, and breakdown of Marcos's authoritarianism on the Supreme Court's functional performance. In our analysis, authoritarianism had no impact on the Court's performance of the conflict resolution function; authoritarianism's onset increased and its breakdown decreased the Court's performance of the routine administrative function; and authoritarianism's onset decreased but its consolidation increased the Court's performance of the social control function.

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The Production of Law in Dictatorship and Democracy
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Law & Society Review , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , 1993 , pp. 707 - 740
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Copyright © 1993 by The Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

The research on which this article is based was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellowship to the Philippines and National Science Foundation Grant #SES-8710051 funded jointly by the Law and Social Science and Political Science programs of NSF. We are grateful to Harold D. Clarke for his invaluable advice and to Karandeep Singh for his multiple contributions to the research. The analyses and opinions contained herein are those of the authors, and are not necessarily those of the Fulbright program, the National Science Foundation, or those who have assisted us with the research.

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