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CHAPTER THIRTEEN: CONSTITUTIONS AND THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK

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a. Does constitutional rule express or limit democracy?

b. What role does, should and will the judiciary play in democratic governance?

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch. 13.

V. Bogdanor, ed., Constitutions in Democratic Politics

R. Dehousse, The European Court of Justice

A. Guarnieri and P. Pederzoli, The Power of Judges: A Comparative Study of

Courts and Democracy

K. Holland, ed., Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspective

H. Jacob et al., Courts , Law and Politics in Comparative Perspective ( New Haven,

CT and London: Yale University Press, 1996)

D. O'Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in Democratic Politics

T. Peretti, In Defence of a Political Court ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press)

M. Rosenfeld, ed., Constitutionalism, Identity, Difference and Legitimacy

M. Shapiro and A. Stone Sweet, On Law, Politics and Judicialization

C. Tate and T. Vallinder, eds, The Global Expansion of Judicial Power