Research Catalog

Title

Transnational networking and elite self-empowerment : the making of the judiciary in contemporary Europe and beyond / Cristina E. Parau.

Author

Parau, Cristina E.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Details

Description

xii, 339 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Judicial institutions in the new democracies established after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe have become patterned on a transnational template that maximises judicial empowerment to the detriment of national parliaments. Through the influence of an elite, transnational community of interest, revisions to the judiciary have been implemented with little attention from politicians or the public. As a result, there has been a shift in the role of the judiciary from adjudication under the law towards improvising public policy. Transnational Networks and Elite Self-Empowerment is an inquiry into why and how this could have come about, and what the implications are for democracy.0Cristina Parau explores the processes by which the elites have used transnational networks as a means of self-empowerment, and how they have been able to entrench their minority influence within the constitutions of their countries. Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, she builds a strong case through a deep analysis set against and supported by an extensive series of interviews with key political actors. This is a timely reminder of the need to pay attention to our democratic institutions and not to take for granted the foundations on which they are laid.

Series Statement

British Academy monograph

Uniform Title

British Academy monograph.

Subject

• Justice, Administration of > Europe, Central
• Justice, Administration of > Europe, Eastern
• Courts > Europe, Central
• Courts > Europe, Eastern
• Judges > Europe, Central
• Judges > Europe, Eastern
• Courts
• Judges
• Justice, Administration of
• Central Europe
• Eastern Europe
• Judicial system
• Administration of justice

Note

• Published for the British Academy.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-321) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Argument and methods -- The ambit of the network community -- Identity and solidarity -- The network community in action -- Thesis and antithesis : to check or not to check the judiciary -- The assumption of intellectual-moral superiority -- The template -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 9780197266403
• 0197266401

LCCN

2018299916

OCLC

• on1029207337
• 1029207337
• SCSB-9240612

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library