Overview
- Shows that constitutional courts exercise direct and indirect power on political branches through decision-making
- Presents that the first face of judicial power is characterized by courts directing political actors to implement judicial decisions in specific ways
- Models judicial–political interaction originating from both faces
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Keywords
- Judicial Politics
- Separation of Powers
- Constitutional Court
- Supreme Court
- Law and Courts
- Empirical Jurisprudence
- Jurisprudence
- Judicial Decision-making
- Judicial Independence.
- Judicial Power
- Judicial-Legislative
- Judicial Directives
- Autolimitation
- Representative Democracy
- Government
- Legislation
- German Federal Constitutional Court
- Directives
- Judicial-Political
- Separation-of-Powers
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"Recent decades have seen a rise in the power of courts, which has been followed by political tensions around judicial decisions and challenges against judicial independence. Scholars have invested a great deal of time and effort trying to understand the interactions between constitutional courts and legislatures, but few are able to match the theoretical rigor, empirical novelty and methodological sophistication of Benjamin Engst’s Two Faces of Judicial Power. The book constitutes a major advance in the field of judicial politics in Europe and beyond."
—Daniel Naurin is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo
"This compelling study of constitutional review in Germany is a welcome addition to the literature. Engst reminds us that the influence courts have over public policy lies not only in their power to strike down laws but in the way that this power influences the shape of pending legislation. He offers a careful theoretical account as well as an innovative approach to revealing the second face of judicial power."
—Jeffrey K. Staton is Professor of Political Science at Emory University
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Book Title: The Two Faces of Judicial Power
Book Subtitle: Dynamics of Judicial-Political Bargaining
Authors: Benjamin G. Engst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46016-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46015-0Published: 18 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46018-1Published: 18 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46016-7Published: 17 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 245
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Governance and Government, European Politics, US Politics, Comparative Politics