Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe

Dr. Pablo Castillo-Ortiz is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield School of Law.

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Democracy and judicial governance in Europe.- Chapter 2: The trade-offs of judicial governance.- Chapter 3: Modernization, democracy and judicial governance.- Chapter 4: Independent judicial councils and democratic quality: a set-theoretical approach.- Chapter 5: Conclusions and some policy reflections.- Appendix 1. Classification and justification of models of judicial governance.- Appendix 2. Database for replication of statistical analyses.- Appendix 3. QCA data matrix for replication of analyses.