Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe
Alec Stone Sweet
Abstract
Advances the thesis that legislative processes are increasingly influenced by constitutional judges and the discursive practices of constitutional adjudication. Parallel to this process, the ordinary judiciary has been carving out wide‐ranging powers of judicial review for itself, seeking to alter statutes deemed unconstitutional. As Stone Sweet argues forcefully, these phenomena have combined to undermine parliamentary sovereignty and to transform the very nature of European government and society. These arguments are illustrated by the detailed comparative examination of five pivotal cases: ... More
Keywords: constitutional politics, judicial review, judicialization, new constitutionalism, parliamentary sovereignty
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2000 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198297710 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2004 | DOI:10.1093/0198297718.001.0001 |
