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Title Judging Russia : Constitutional Court in Russian Politics, 1990-2006 / Alexei Trochev
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Published Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008
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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
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 Drawing upon systematic analysis of all decisions of the Russian Court (published and unpublished) and previously unavailable materials on their (non- )implementation, and resting on a combination of the approaches from comparative politics, law, and public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
Subject Russia (Federation). Konstitut︠s︡ionnyĭ Sud -- History
SUBJECT Russia (Federation). Konstitut︠s︡ionnyĭ Sud. fast (OCoLC)fst00687449
Subject Constitutional history -- Russia (Federation)
Judicial review -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Constitutional courts -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Genre/Form Online-Publikation
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Trochev, Alexei.
ISBN 0521887437
9780511399206
9780521887434
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0511399200
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9780521173353
0521173353