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
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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 -