Judging Russia

The Role of the Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 1990-2006

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvAlexei Trochev

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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 Drawing upon systematic analysis of all decisions of the Russian Court (published and unpublished) and previously unavailable materials on their (non-)implementation, and resting on a combination of the approaches from comparative politics, law, and public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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-04-28
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521887434

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Alexei Trochev is Adjunct Professor for the School of Policy Studies of Queen's University in Ontario. He received his B.A. in Russian law from Syktyvkar State University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto in 2005. He taught Constitutional Law at the Pomor State University Law School in Arkhangelsk, Russia. Trochev's writings have been published in the Law & Society Review, American Journal of Comparative Law, East European Constitutional Review, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and he has contributed several book chapters on post-communist judicial politics.

1. Introduction: three puzzles of post-communist judicial empowerment; 2. Non-linear judicial empowerment; 3. Making and re-making constitutional review Russian-style; 4. The Russian constitutional review in action (1990–3); 5. Decision-making of the 2nd Russian constitutional court: 1995–2006; 6. The constitutional court has ruled … what next?; 7. The 2nd Russian constitutional court (1995–2007): problematique of implementation; 8. 'Tinkering' with judicial tenure and 'wars of courts' in comparative perspective.