1st Edition

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

Edited By Kálmán Pócza Copyright 2019
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

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.... Read more

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

Biography

Kálmán Pócza is senior research fellow at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and associate professor at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest. He is the Principal Investigator of the JUDICON research project (www.judicon.tk.mta.hu).