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dc.contributor.authorSAFJAN, Marek
dc.date.accessioned2008-02-14T10:16:15Z
dc.date.available2008-02-14T10:16:15Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.issn1725-6739
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/8101
dc.description.abstractThe paper deals with different forms of political impact on the constitutional justice. The main subject of presentation is the analysis of recent Polish experiences which can help to identify better the threats to the independence of the constitutional justice in democratic space. The first part takes the effort to describe the specific phenomenon of political pressure exerted on the constitutional justice through indirect influence (so called “political mobbing”). The argumentation developed in the paper proves that even such indirect and sometimes subtle interferences from the political elite create the very danger for accountability of constitutional justice and have a negative impact on constitutional awareness of the society. The second part deals with typical reasons (ongoing in all constitutional courts) of inevitable <politization> of the constitutional review, first of all the political procedure of appointments of the judges and the political nature of constitutional cases. The thesis is defended through the analysis of Polish experiences which indicate that the presence of politics, inherent element of the constitutional justice, cannot be automatically identified with lack of the objective and independent judgments issued by the judges. Internal independence and formal external guarantees of it allow us to avoid the pathological impact of politics. Two factors have a particularly great impact on the attitudes of judges and support them in fulfilling their responsibility: the continuity of jurisprudential lines, accumulation of constitutional experience (acquis constitutionnel) and the permanent dialogue between the constitutional courts and the international courts or among the constitutional courts in the European space.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Institute
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI LAWen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2008/10en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectconstitution buildingen
dc.subjectdemocracyen
dc.subjectnon-majoritarian institutionsen
dc.subjectpolitical cultureen
dc.subjectpolitical representationen
dc.subjectpublic opinionen
dc.subjectfundamental/human rightsen
dc.subjectjudicial reviewen
dc.subjecttransparencyen
dc.titlePolitics and Constitutional Courts A Judge’s Personal Perspectiveen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
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