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The distinction between the political arena and the legal arena differs widely across societies and across history. For example, during the colonial period in the United States almost all of the functions we will be describing as political were performed by the legal system (Friedman, 1985). If, for example, a decision had to be made concerning whether a road should be built, that decision was made by the same body of leaders and at the same meeting as a decision about punishment for the town drunk. In other societies the decisions that we think of as legal are handled by “political” officials and no distinction between law and politics is made.
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Lind, E.A., Tyler, T.R. (1988). Procedural Justice in the Political Arena. In: The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice. Critical Issues in Social Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2115-4_7
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