TY - JOUR
T1 - Litigating federalism
T2 - an empirical analysis of decisions of the Belgian Constitutional Court
AU - Pellegrina, Lucia Dalla
AU - Mot, Jef de
AU - Faure, Michael
AU - Garoupa, Nuno
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Authors.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - 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 latter.
AB - 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 latter.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020034398&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1574019617000050
DO - 10.1017/S1574019617000050
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85020034398
SN - 1574-0196
VL - 13
SP - 305
EP - 346
JO - European Constitutional Law Review
JF - European Constitutional Law Review
IS - 2
ER -