Courts in Democratic Systems

Abstract

Provided that constitutional review spreads across the democratic systems we need to systematically test the various approaches and theories developed for the US Supreme Court (Maveety 2003) and create some specific comparative theories. We expect the papers to follow this perspective in order to improve the understanding of judicial politics in contemporary politics. Given the narrow focus of existing studies they may comparatively investigate a number of issues regarding courts and judicial politics such as institution-building, institutional settings (judge appointment, court access, types of review, court rules), intra-court decision-making (judicial preferences, agenda-setting, case selection), and the relation between courts and other actors (government, parliament, public, lower courts, other Courts, European Court of Justice).

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