Judicial Review and Political Partisanship: Moving from Consensual to Majoritarian Democracy

Nuno Garoupaa; Veronica  Grembi

doi:10.1016/j.irle.2015.04.002

Judicial Review and Political Partisanship: Moving from Consensual to Majoritarian Democracy

Nuno Garoupaa, Veronica Grembi

CBS LAW

Texas A&M University

Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

Abstract

Due to the collapse of the party system during the mid-nineties, Italy represents an interesting case study to test the effects of a transition from a consensual to a majoritarian model of democracy on judicial behavior at the level of the Constitutional Court. Using a dataset of 972 cases of substantive judicial review (ricorsi in via principale) from 1985 to 2005, and proposing new measures of political alignment within constitutional review, we analyze the effect of a change in the political party system on judicial behavior. Our results show that political alignment is a stronger predictor of judicial decision making under majoritarian than consensual model of democracy.

Original language	English
Journal	International Review of Law and Economics
Volume	43
Pages (from-to)	32-45
Number of pages	14
ISSN	0144-8188
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2015.04.002
Publication status	Published - Aug 2015

Access to Document

10.1016/j.irle.2015.04.002Licence: Unspecified

CBS Remote Access

Full text

Handle.net

Persistent link

Cite this

@article{f52b919de75944fd988738dbfef794aa,

title = "Judicial Review and Political Partisanship: Moving from Consensual to Majoritarian Democracy",

abstract = "Due to the collapse of the party system during the mid-nineties, Italy represents an interesting case study to test the effects of a transition from a consensual to a majoritarian model of democracy on judicial behavior at the level of the Constitutional Court. Using a dataset of 972 cases of substantive judicial review (ricorsi in via principale) from 1985 to 2005, and proposing new measures of political alignment within constitutional review, we analyze the effect of a change in the political party system on judicial behavior. Our results show that political alignment is a stronger predictor of judicial decision making under majoritarian than consensual model of democracy.",

keywords = "Party systems, Judicial behavior, Italian Constitutional Court, Judicial politics",

author = "Nuno Garoupaa and Veronica Grembi",

year = "2015",

month = aug,

doi = "10.1016/j.irle.2015.04.002",

language = "English",

volume = "43",

pages = "32--45",

journal = "International Review of Law and Economics",

issn = "0144-8188",

publisher = "Elsevier",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Judicial Review and Political Partisanship

T2 - Moving from Consensual to Majoritarian Democracy

AU - Garoupaa, Nuno

AU - Grembi, Veronica

PY - 2015/8

Y1 - 2015/8

N2 - Due to the collapse of the party system during the mid-nineties, Italy represents an interesting case study to test the effects of a transition from a consensual to a majoritarian model of democracy on judicial behavior at the level of the Constitutional Court. Using a dataset of 972 cases of substantive judicial review (ricorsi in via principale) from 1985 to 2005, and proposing new measures of political alignment within constitutional review, we analyze the effect of a change in the political party system on judicial behavior. Our results show that political alignment is a stronger predictor of judicial decision making under majoritarian than consensual model of democracy.

AB - Due to the collapse of the party system during the mid-nineties, Italy represents an interesting case study to test the effects of a transition from a consensual to a majoritarian model of democracy on judicial behavior at the level of the Constitutional Court. Using a dataset of 972 cases of substantive judicial review (ricorsi in via principale) from 1985 to 2005, and proposing new measures of political alignment within constitutional review, we analyze the effect of a change in the political party system on judicial behavior. Our results show that political alignment is a stronger predictor of judicial decision making under majoritarian than consensual model of democracy.

KW - Party systems

KW - Judicial behavior

KW - Italian Constitutional Court

KW - Judicial politics

U2 - 10.1016/j.irle.2015.04.002

DO - 10.1016/j.irle.2015.04.002

M3 - Journal article

VL - 43

SP - 32

EP - 45

JO - International Review of Law and Economics

JF - International Review of Law and Economics

SN - 0144-8188

ER -