TY - BOOK AU - Baum,Lawrence AU - Blankenburg,Erhard AU - Gawron,Thomas AU - Heun,Werner AU - Johnson,Timothy R. AU - Kagan,Robert A. AU - Kneip,Sascha AU - Kranenpohl,Uwe AU - Lietzmann,Hans J. AU - Massing,Otwin AU - Rogowski,Ralf AU - Sorenson,Maron W. AU - Stüwe,Klaus AU - Ward,Artemus TI - Constitutional Courts in Comparison: The US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court SN - 9781785332739 AV - KF8742 .C655 2016 U1 - 347.73/26 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Constitutional courts KW - Judicial review KW - LAW / Constitutional KW - bisacsh KW - Sociology N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword to the Second Edition --; Foreword to the First Edition --; Figures and Tables --; Introduction: Constitutional Litigation as Dispute Processing: Comparing the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court --; Part I Access and Case Selection --; Chapter 1 Constitutional Litigation in the United States --; Chapter 2 Access to the German Federal Constitutional Court --; Chapter 3 Mobilization of the German Federal Constitutional Court --; Part II Decision Making --; Chapter 4 The U.S. Supreme Court’s Strategic Decision-Making Process --; Chapter 5 Decision Making at the German Federal Constitutional Court --; Chapter 6 Junior Varsity Judges? Law Clerks in the Decisional Process of the U.S. Supreme Court --; Chapter 7 Legal Assistants at the German Federal Constitutional Court: A “Black Box” of Research? --; Part III Implementation --; Chapter 8 The Implementation of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions --; Chapter 9 Implementation of German Federal Constitutional Court Decisions: Judicial Orders and the Federal Legislature --; Part IV Comparative Perspectives --; Chapter 10 The U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court: Selection, Nomination, and Election of Justices --; Chapter 11 The Impact of the German Federal Constitutional Court on the Consolidation and Quality of Democracy --; Chapter 12 Constitutional Courts in Changing Political Systems --; Index; restricted access N2 - Constitutional litigation in general attracts two distinct types of conflict: disputes of a highly politicized or culturally controversial nature and requests from citizens claiming a violation of a fundamental constitutional right. The side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court provides a novel socio-legal approach in studying constitutional litigation, focusing on conditions of mobilisation, decision-making and implementation. This updated and revised second edition includes a number of new contributions on the political status of the courts in their democratic political cultures UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785330964?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785330964 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785330964/original ER -