Tate C. Neal and Stacia L. Haynie, “Authoritarianism and the Functions of Courts: A Time Series Analysis of the Philippine Supreme Court, 1961–1987.” Law & Society Review, vol. 27, no. 4 (1993): 707–40.
Summary: Focusing on the independent and powerful pre–martial law Philippine Supreme Court, the authors 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. The authors 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, the authors assess the impacts of the onset, consolidation, and breakdown of Marcos’s authoritarianism on the Supreme Court’s functional performance. In their 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.