When analysts adopt surrogates of actors' political preferences for purposes unanticipated
by the inventors of those measures, they often stretch (but not explicitly assess) the range of …

Spanish Constitutional Court–Judicial behaviour–Mixed judicial selection–Empirical testing–
Decisions of the Spanish Constitutional Court, 1980-2018–Judicial background …

ABSTRACT The Spanish Constitutional Court has occupied a central position in the Spanish
political system since the Transition. Its decisions have completed, and still complete, the …

In countries with multi-level governance, the balance of power between centre and
periphery results from complex bargaining processes. Existing literature equates …

This article focuses on Italy as an example of the judicialization of territorial politics, with the
Constitutional Court adopting a growing role in centre–region relationships. It addresses the …

Traditionally, the conventional views in legal and comparative literature portray civil-law
judiciaries as legalistic bureaucracies insulated from political preferences. We investigate …

This paper econometrically tests the possible existence of a War of Courts when the Spanish
Constitutional Court (CC) decides on constitutional complaints (recursos de amparo), filed …

We examine dissent on the Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) using a novel dataset
of 2.23 million individual votes in over 420,000 collegiate decisions issued between 1988 …

Judicial institutions have become the standard solution to umpire multilevel polities across
much of the European continent. However, such arrangement is not free from complexities …

Spain is a diverse country from many different perspectives, for reasons rooted in history and
geography (Aja, 2014; Arzoz, 2019). One traditional feature of the so-called “State of …