Bulletin n. 1/2017 | ||
June 2017 | ||
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Dalla Pellegrina Lucia , De Mot Jef, Faure Michael ,Garoupa Nuno |
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Litigating Federalism: An Empirical Analysis of Decisions of the Belgian Constitutional Court | ||
in European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 13 - Issue 2 , 2017 , 305-346 | ||
Belgian Constitutional Court – Conflicts between regions, communities and the central government – Allocation of competences – Decisions with high political content – Degree of political alignment between the parties in litigation and judicial behaviour at the Court – Empirical testing – All decisions of the Belgian Constitutional Court, 1985-2012 – Alignment between the alleged political preferences of the judges and the political affiliation of the Petitioner increases the rate of success of the latte | ||