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The Politics of Judicial Review

Supranational Administrative Acts and Judicialized Compliance Conflict in the EU

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Authors:
  1. Christian Adam

    1. University of Munich, Germany, München, Germany

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Part of the book series: European Administrative Governance (EAGOV)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Christian Adam
    Pages 1-19

  3. Tracing Causal Mechanisms: Why Governments Activate the Court of Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-22
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    2. Policy Misfit and Governmental Litigation

      • Christian Adam
      Pages 23-42

    3. Governmental Litigation as a Form of Legal Activism

      • Christian Adam
      Pages 43-78

  4. Moving Beyond Anecdotal Evidence: The Role of Policy Misfit and Legal Activism in the EU’s State Aid Policy Regime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-80
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    2. State Aid Control in the European Union

      • Christian Adam
      Pages 81-116

    3. Governmental Litigation, Policy Misfit, and Legal Activism in the EU’s State Aid Regime

      • Christian Adam
      Pages 117-154

    4. Conclusion

      • Christian Adam
      Pages 155-164

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 165-179
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About this book

This book unites scholarship on law and politics with compliance research in the EU to shed light on the political role of a neglected dimension of litigation in the EU: the political role of governmental actions for annulment. The book does not portray national governments as passive actors within the EU’s judicial arena. Instead it focuses on cases in which national governments turn to the Court of Justice to litigate against the European Commission, and provides several answers to the question of why EU member state governments take this decision. Governments hope, on the one hand, to evade costly domestic adjustments where the Commission uses administrative acts to interfere with domestic policy application. On the other hand, governments hope to provoke judicial law-making to influence the long-term development of EU administrative law and sectoral regulation. The book will be of particular interest to political scientists and legal scholars.                                                                                                                                     

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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Munich, Germany, München, Germany

    Christian Adam

About the author

Christian Adam is Assistant Professor at the University of Munich, Germany. His research focuses on policy change, policy implementation and the role of courts and litigation in these processes. He published in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and International Journal of Drug Policy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Politics of Judicial Review

  • Book Subtitle: Supranational Administrative Acts and Judicialized Compliance Conflict in the EU

  • Authors: Christian Adam

  • Series Title: European Administrative Governance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57832-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57831-0Published: 27 April 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57832-7Published: 20 April 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2524-7263

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-7271

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 179

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Policy, European Union Politics

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