Judical independence and the validity of converted elections

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This article examines whether the judges of the French Constitutional Court demonstrated partisanship when ruling on the validity of the elections to the lower house of the French Parliament between 1958 and 2005. It uses a new dataset on the decisions of the Constitutional Court which takes into account the characteristics of the controverted parliamentary elections. The rulings of the Constitutional Court are found to be biased against far-right candidates. However, the judges are also found to display some form of independence vis-à-vis the government since they do not favor candidates from the ruling party when they render their decisions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2009-08

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
• Subject: Judicial independence ; Judicial politics ; Judges ; Parliamentary elections ; Wahl ; Parlament ; Rechtsprechung ; Verfassungsgericht ; Neue politische Ökonomie ; Frankreich

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Franck, Raphaël
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics
• (where): Ramat-Gan
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/96022
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET