Litigating federalism: An empirical analysis of decisions of the Belgian Constitutional Court

L. Dalla Pellegrina; J. de Mot; Michael Faure; N. Garoupa

doi:10.1017/S1574019617000050

Litigating federalism: An empirical analysis of decisions of the Belgian Constitutional Court

L. Dalla Pellegrina^*, J. de Mot, Michael Faure, N. Garoupa

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Abstract

Belgian Constitutional Court ? Conflicts between regions, communities and the central government ? Allocation of competences ? Decisions with high political content ? Degree of political alignment between the parties in litigation and judicial behaviour at the Court ? Empirical testing ? All decisions of the Belgian Constitutional Court, 1985-2012 ? Alignment between the alleged political preferences of the judges and the political affiliation of the Petitioner increases the rate of success of the latter

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	305-346
Number of pages	42
Journal	European Constitutional Law Review
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019617000050
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017

Keywords

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE
POLITICS
SPANISH

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