Politics, Judicial Review, and the Russian Constitutional Court [electronic resource] /
Thorson, C.author.
Analysis of why politicians are driven to create an independent judicial institution with the authority to overrule their decisions. It focuses on a country with no tradition of independent judicial review - Russia. History does not support an independent judiciary here; yet a potentially powerful constitutional court has existed for 20 years.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration; List of Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Foreign Phrases; 1 The Russian Constitutional Court in Comparative Perspective; Comparing constitutional courts; Theoretical considerations; 2 Establishing Judicial Review in Russia; The USSR Constitutional Oversight Committee, 1989-91; The first Russian Constitutional Court, 1991-93; The second Constitutional Court, 1994-2010; Conclusions; 3 The Politics of Judicial Review in Russia, 1989-2010: Which Politicians Use Constitutional Courts?; The petitioners
4 USSR Constitutional Oversight Committee, 1989-91: The First FailureDecisions of the USSR Constitutional Oversight Committee; The first failure; 5 The First Russian Constitutional Court, 1991-93: How Do Politicians Use Constitutional Courts?; Decisions of the first Russian Constitutional Court; The second failure; 6 The Second Russian Constitutional Court,1994-2010: How Do Constitutional Courts BecomeGuarantors of Fair Rules of the Game?; Chairmanship of Vladimir Tumanov, 1995-96; Chairmanship of Marat Baglai, 1997-2003; Chairmanship of Valerii Zorkin Redux, 2003-10; Conclusion
7 Three Attempts to Establish Judicial Review in Russia:What Constitutes Success?Appendix I-Constitutional Court Justices, 1991-2010; Appendix II-Terms of Russian Constitutional Court Justices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Analysis of why politicians are driven to create an independent judicial institution with the authority to overrule their decisions. It focuses on a country with no tradition of independent judicial review - Russia. History does not support an independent judiciary here; yet a potentially powerful constitutional court has existed for 20 years.
Russia (Federation). Konstitut︠s︡ionnyĭ Sud.
Criminology.
Europe—Politics and government.
Russia—Politics and government.
Political sociology.
Political science.
Public administration.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
European Politics.
Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.
Political Sociology.
Political Science.
Public Administration.