Constitutional Politics and the Judiciary: Decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Constitutional Politics and the Judiciary: Decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe

By Kalman Pocza
Routledge June 2020

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ISBN-13
9780367523558
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
June 2020
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities, for example in Poland and Hungary, have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature in Central and Eastern European countries. Several political actors have argued that courts have assumed too much power after the democratic transformation process in 1989/1990. These claims are explicitly or implicitly connected to the charge that courts have constrained the room for manoeuvre of the legislatures too heavily and that they have entered the field of politics. Nevertheless, the question to what extent has this aggregation of power constrained the dominant political actors has never been examined accurately and systematically in the literature.

The present volume fills this gap by applying an innovative research methodology to quantify the impact and effect of court’s decisions on legislation and legislators, and measure the strength of judicial decisions in six CEE countries.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Kálmán Pócza
Chapter 2: Research methodology
Kálmán Pócza and Gábor Dobos
Chapter 3: The Czech Constitutional Court: Far away from political influence
Katarína Šipulová
Chapter 4: The German Federal Constitutional Court: Authority transformed into power?
Oliver W. Lembcke
Chapter 5: The Hungarian Constitutional Court: A constructive partner in constitutional dialogue
Kálmán Pócza, Gábor Dobos and Attila Gyulai
Chapter 6: The Polish Constitutional Tribunal: Deference beyond the veil of activism
Artur Wołek and Iga Kender-Jeziorska
Chapter 7: The Romanian Constitutional Court: Muddling through democratic transition
Csongor Kuti
Chapter 8: The Slovak Constitutional Court: The third legislator?
Erik Láštic and Max Steuer
Chapter 9: Courts compared: The practice of constitutional adjudication in Central and Eastern Europe
Kálmán Pócza, Gábor Dobos and Attila Gyulai
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