00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003046 20221109084647 0010-0520003046 221109################|##########|#eng## 0521836476 eng 347.430 347.430 VAN p Vanberg, Georg Politics of Constitutional Review in Germany / Georg Vanberg Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 xii, 193p. : : illus. ; 23 cm. Indeks : p.189-193 p.179-187 Constitutional courts have emerged as central institutions in many advanced democracies. This book investigates the sources and limits of judicial authority, focusing on the central role of public support for judicial independence. It illustrate the theoretical argument in an in-depth study of the German Federal Constitutional Court, including statistical analysis of judicial decisions, case studies, and interviews with judges and legislators. The book's major finding is that the interests of governing majorities, prevailing public opinion, and the transparency of the political environment exert a powerful influence on judicial decisions. Judges are influenced not only by jurisprudential considerations and their policy preferences, but also by strategic concerns. It challenges the contention that high court justices are largely unconstrained actors, as well as the notion that constitutional courts lack democratic legitimacy. The period bracketed by the dramatic moments of 1937 and 1954, written off as a forgotten time of failure and futility, was in reality the first phase of modern struggles to define the constitutional order that will dominate the twenty - first century. Judicial review - Germany - Public opinion Judicial review - Political aspects - Germany 11562/MKRI-P/XII-2008 11562/MKRI-P/XII-2008 11562/MKRI-P/XII-2008