00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000001295 20200508201416 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||ind|| ***** 010-0520001295 ind 328.3 328.3/MAG/t Pedro C. Magalhaes The Limits to Judicialization: Legislative Politics and Constitutional Review in the Iberian Democracies America The Other Press 2003 xvii, 398 hlm.; 29 cm 29 cm A growing body of literature has suggested that courts are becming increasingly powerful political actors in many contemporary democraries. This trend is supposed to be stronger where constitutional courts perform a so called “abstract review” of legislation. Such courts are the potential recipients of ligitation by opposition parties against legislation passed by parliamentary majorities, and enjoy the power to veto it if they find unconstitusional provisions.