Journal Articles

The Power Knocks at the Courts' Back Door: Two Waves of Postcommunist Judicial Reforms

---

In the postcommunist countries' candidate to the European membership, the EU and the Council of Europe exercised a heavy pressure on domestic elite to promote the adoption of institutional guarantees of judicial independence and judicial capacity. Relying on a wide set of interviews with the key actors of the European and domestic institutions, this article will discuss the logic of action of the judicial reforms adopted in Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary in two policy subfields: the governance of the judicial branch and the governance of the court. The empirical evidence confirms that the processes of reform have been deeply influenced by the national actors who had been empowered during the democratic transition. They have been able to fully exploit the resources provided by the EU.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

Comparative Political Studies

Call Number

-

Publisher

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publication., 2009

Collation

-

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0010-4140

Classification

-

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

Volume 42, Number 6, June 2009. pp. 816-840

Subject(s)

Postcommunist
courts
Rule of law
European enlargement
Judicial Policies
The Power Knocks at the Courts' Back Door

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment