Artikel

Constitutional Review as a Democratic Instrument

The article situates Rosalind Dixon’s Responsive Judicial Review in constitutional legal literature and engages with its central message by introducing the idea of constitutional courts as accessible democratic institutions. It compares constitutional review in a well-functioning and a declining democracy. After considering the relationship between democratic self-government and constitutional review, the article argues that a lawfully established, accessible, yet reasonably self-restraining constitutional court with the power of procedural and substantive review can be understood as a democratic institution. To support this claim, the article offers the example of Hungary, where democratization coincided with the birth of accessible constitutional review and where the decay of democracy has been accompanied by the decline of constitutional review. It concludes that constitutional justices can always have a choice. They can contribute to an autocratic transformation or resist the autocratic government by performing a Herculean task.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Review of Central and East European Law ; ISSN: 1573-0352 ; Volume: 48 ; Year: 2023 ; Issue: 3/4 ; Pages: 473-489 ; Leiden: Brill

Klassifikation
Recht
Thema
Constitutional review
democracy
access to justice
actio popularis
Hungarian Constitutional Court

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kovács, Kriszta
Tóth, Gábor Attila
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Brill
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Leiden
(wann)
2023

DOI
doi:10.1163/15730352-bja10086
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Kovács, Kriszta
  • Tóth, Gábor Attila
  • Brill
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2023

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