Empowerment without Accountability? The Lawyers’ Movement in Pakistan and its Aftershocks
dc.contributor.author | Khan, Maryam | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Pakistan | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-27T15:17:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-27T15:17:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-09-27 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Khan, M. S. (Khan) 'Empowerment without Accountability? The Lawyers’ Movement in Pakistan and its Aftershocks', in Joshi, A. (Ed) Accountability Amidst Fragility, Conflict, and Violence: Learning from Recent Cases, IDS Bulletin 50.3, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14721 | |
dc.description.abstract | This case study on the Pakistan Lawyers’ Movement and its aftermath aims to add to our knowledge of judicial empowerment processes, particularly the role of lawyers in mobilising for an independent judiciary, and the conditions for political lawyering as an effective pathway to judicial empowerment. In exploring these processes and conditions of empowerment, the study also examines their relationship with the longerterm outcomes of empowerment as well as the nexus between judicial empowerment and accountability of legal institutions. The study marshals evidence from multiple sources – including 35 qualitative interviews with movement leaders and participants, and a representative survey of active litigators in the Lahore District judiciary – to show, firstly, that the conditions that create successful mobilisation for judicial empowerment can significantly limit the systemic benefits of such mobilisation and, secondly, that the conditions for and the pathway to empowerment may deeply constrain the accountability of the empowered actors and institutions. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department for International Development (DFID) | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;50.3 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Development Policy | en |
dc.title | Empowerment without Accountability? The Lawyers’ Movement in Pakistan and its Aftershocks | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Governance | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2019.130 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-09-27 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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