Judging Russia : Constitutional Court in Russian Politics, 1990-2006 / Alexei Trochev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trochev, Alexei, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia (Federation). Konstitut︠s︡ionnyĭ Sud--History.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation). Konstitut︠s︡ionnyĭ Sud.

Constitutional courts--Russia (Federation)--History.

Constitutional courts.

Constitutional history--Russia (Federation).

Constitutional history.

Judicial review.

History.

Judicial review--Russia (Federation)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This is a study of the actual role that the Russian Constitutional Court played in protecting fundamental rights and resolving legislative-executive struggles and federalism disputes in both Yeltsin's and Putin's Russia. Trochev argues that judicial empowerment is a non-linear process with unintended consequences and that courts that depend on their reputation flourish only if an effective and capable state is there to support them. This is because judges can rely only on the authoritativeness of their judgments, unlike politicians and bureaucrats, who have the material resources necessary to respond to judicial decisions. Drawing upon systematic analysis of all decisions of the Russian Court (published and unpublished) and previously unavailable materials on their (non-)implementation, and resting on a combination of the approaches from comparative politics, law, and public administration, this book shows how and why judges attempted to reform Russia's governance and fought to ensure compliance with their judgments.

Contents:

Introduction: three puzzles of post-communist judicial empowerment

Non-linear judicial empowerment

Making and re-making constitutional review Russian-style

Russian constitutional review in action (1990-1993)

Decision-making of the 2nd Russian constitutional court: 1995-2006

The constitutional court has ruled ... what next?

The 2nd Russian constitutional court (1995-2007): problematique of implementation

"Tinkering with judicial tenure" and "wars of courts" in comparative perspective.

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ISBN:

9780511511226

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