Resumo:O artigo trata das decisões tomadas pelos tribunais constitucionais da Coréia do Sul e de Formosa que resolveram crises políticas com sucesso.

Sumário:Politically charged cases and strategic judicial responses: Taiwan: President Chen Shui-bian, the Red-Shirt Army, and judicial response. South Korea: President Roh Moon-Hyun and the impeachment case. Analyzing judicial responses and the underlying political contexts: Features of strategic judicial responses: Creating a 'win-win' situation. Giving decisions with a single judicial voice. Adopting self-empowering legal doctrines -- Political contexts of the two strategic judicial responses: Divided government and the political status quo. Democratic commitments and judicial institutional constraints. Politicization of the judiciary and judicialization of politics: inevitable effects?