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En este artículo, el autor analiza el profundo cambio que en la distribución del poder se ha suscitado a nivel mundial. Este cambio consiste en una transformación en el papel que juegan los tribunales y jueces en la judicialización de la política —la mayor participación de jueces y tribunales en asuntos políticos— y de los actores políticos en la politización de la ley —la creciente participación de la clase política en el terreno judicial. El autor distingue al menos tres maneras en las que los tribunales han tomado nuevos e importantes papeles en relación con las legislaturas. Ello ha ocasionado la transformación de las cuestiones políticas en cuestiones legales donde consideraciones del tipo legal/constitucional y la retórica adquieren nueva y a veces decisiva importancia en la elaboración ordinaria de políticas. ; In this article, the author asserts that there has been profound shift in power away from legislatures and toward courts and other legal institutions. This shift, which has been called judicialization, has become more or less global in its reach. The article carefully examines this constant ebb and flow, this constant shift in the role played by courts and judges in judicializing politics —the greater participation of judges and courts in political matters— and by the various political actors in politicizing the law —the growing participation of politicians in judicial matters. The author distinguishes at least three ways in which courts have taken on new and important roles relative to legislatures. Therefore we find ourselves with the transformation of political questions into legal ones. And this means that legal/constitutional considerations and rhetoric assume new and sometimes decisive importance in ordinary legislative policy making.

Dan Carpenter's massive new study of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a definitive study of regulatory politics and administrative behavior destined to stand alongside other classic studies of administrative agencies, such as Herbert Kaufman's The Forest Ranger (1960) or Martha Derthick's Policy Making for Social Security (1979). Like Carpenter's earlier work, Reputation and Power is marked by deep erudition, thorough scholarship, painstaking attention to detail, and a wide-ranging attention to alternative disciplinary paradigms. And it is argued with great craft, subtlety, and creativity both in developing its historical narrative and in its cogent theoretical analysis.

En este artículo, el autor analiza el profundo cambio que en la distribución del poder se ha suscitado a nivel mundial. Este cambio consiste en una transformación en el papel que juegan los tribunales y jueces en la judicialización de la política —la mayor participación de jueces y tribunales en asuntos políticos— y de los actores políticos en la politización de la ley —la creciente participación de la clase política en el terreno judicial. El autor distingue al menos tres maneras en las que los tribunales han tomado nuevos e importantes papeles en relación con las legislaturas. Ello ha ocasionado la transformación de las cuestiones políticas en cuestiones legales donde consideraciones del tipo legal/constitucional y la retórica adquieren nueva y a veces decisiva importancia en la elaboración ordinaria de políticas.

The author asserts that there has been a profound shift in power away from legislatures & toward courts & other legal institutions. This shift, which has been called judicialization, has become more or less global in its reach. The article carefully examines this constant ebb & flow, this constant shift in the role played by courts & judges in judicializing politics (the greater participation of judges & courts in political matters) & by the various political actors in politicizing the law (the growing participation of politicians in judicial matters). The author distinguishes at least three ways in which courts have taken on new & important roles relative to legislatures. Therefore we find ourselves with the transformation of political questions into legal ones. And this means that legal/constitutional considerations & rhetoric assume new & sometimes decisive importance in ordinary legislative policy making. Adapted from the source document.