European Visions of Judicial Governance (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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This book shows how domestic elites (judges, politicians and lawyers) think about the importance, functioning and future of judicial governance in six European countries - Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Slovakia. It builds on a unique dataset of 132 semi-structured elite interviews, enabling in-depth exploration of perceptions regarding the functioning, advantages and power distribution within these six judicial systems. It shows that irrespective of the judicial governance model, domestic elites call for the formal decentralisation of governance. They also believe that more veto players are the best checks and balances against internal corporativism and political capture of judicial governance bodies. The interviews also reveal that elites' trust in judicial self-governance depends heavily on judicial culture. In fact, there are at least four different understandings of the nature of judicial councils among judges, political actors and lawyers. This challenges the uniform understanding of judicial councils provided by European supranational bodies. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.