Governing with Judges - Constitutional Politics in Europe (Hardcover)

This volume elaborates a theory of constitutional politics, the process through which the discursive practices and techniques of constitutional adjudication come to structure the work of governments, parliaments, judges, and administrators. Focusing on the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the European Union, the book examines the sources and consequences of the pan-European movement to confer constitutional review authority on a new governmental institution, the constitutional court. Detailed case studies illustrate how and to what extent legislative processes have been placed under the influence of constitutional judges. In a growing number of policy domains, these judges function as powerful, adjunct legislators. As constitutional courts have consolidated their position as authoritative interpreters of the constitutional law, and especially of human rights provisions, the work of the judiciary, too, has gradually been constitutionalised. Today, ordinary judges seek to detect violations of the constitution in their application of the various codes, and to rewrite statutes that they deem unconstitutional Alec Stone Sweet argues that constitutional adjudication construct

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Alec Stone Sweet (Official Fellow in Politics, Chair in Comparative Government)
Dimensions:	243 x 164 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-829730-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > General
LSN:	0-19-829730-0
Barcode:	9780198297307

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