00000nam 2200000 4500 22201/MKRI-P/XI-2011 INLIS000000000009358 22202/MKRI-P/XI-2011 20221109090557 0010-0520009358 221109################|##########|#eng## 9780300148671 eng 347.71 347.71 COM c Comella, Victor Ferreres Constitutional Courts and Democratic Values : a European Perspective / Victor Ferreres Comella New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009 xvi, 238 p. ; 24 cm. ; 24 cm. In this book, Víctor Ferreres Comella contrasts the European “centralized” constitutional court model, in which one court system is used to adjudicate constitutional questions, with a decentralized model, such as that of the United States, in which courts deal with both constitutional and nonconstitutional questions. Comella’s systematic exploration of the reasons for and against the creation of constitutional courts is rich in detail and offers an ambitious theory to justify the European preference for them. Based on extensive research on eighteen European countries, Comella finds that centralized review fits well with the civil law tradition and structures of ordinary adjudication in those countries. Comella concludes that—while the decentralized model works for the United States—there is more than one way to preserve democratic values and that these values are best preserved in the parliamentary democracies of Europe through constitutional courts. Constitutional courts --Europe. Judicial review --Europe. Constitutional courts --United States. Judicial review --United States. 22201/MKRI-P/XI-2011 22202/MKRI-P/XI-2011