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020 _a9783832544119
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041 0 _aEnglish
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072 7 _aJPH
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100 1 _aWittig, Caroline
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245 1 0 _aThe Occurrence of Separate Opinions at the Federal Constitutional Court : An Analysis with a Novel Database
260 _aBerlin/Germany
_bLogos Verlag Berlin
_c2016
300 _a1 electronic resource (178 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
_2star
_fUnrestricted online access
520 _aCourts with the right to constitutional review exert considerable power in a political system. However, especially for Kelsenian constitutional courts there are hardly any large-N studies. This is mainly due to a lack of data. For the German Federal Constitutional Court, this gap has been closed by building a novel database, the development of which is depicted in this book. Employing data from this database, the occurrence of separate opinions in general and their different types in particular are analyzed. The book introduces a new, universal theory that reconciles and expands existing explanations. In a second step, the theory is applied to the German Federal Constitutional Court. It can be proven that one factor that has been neglected so far plays a decisive role: The judges' behavior depends on the profession they pursue after their time in office. Moreover, the study shows that -- contrary to the common literature -- it is not mainly the topic that determines a case's conflict potential but rather the number of issues a decision has to address.
540 _aCreative Commons
_fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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_4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aPolitical structure & processes
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653 _aJudicial Politics
653 _aGerman Federal Constitutional Court
653 _aJudicial Behavior
653 _aDatabases
653 _aQuantitative Analyses
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