Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age Dixon
Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age Dixon Democratic dysfunction can arise in both 'at risk' and well-functioning constitutional systems. Responsive Judicial…
Specifikacia Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age Dixon
Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age Dixon
Democratic dysfunction can arise in both 'at risk' and well-functioning constitutional systems. Responsive Judicial Review aims to counter this dysfunction using examples from both the global north and global south, including leading constitutional courts in the US, UK, Canada, India, South Africa, and Colombia, as well as select aspects of the constitutional jurisprudence of courts in Australia, Fiji, Hong Kong, and Korea.In this book, Dixon argues that courts should adopt a sufficiently 'dialogic' approach to countering relevant democratic blockages and look for ways to increase the actual and perceived legitimacy of their decisions--through careful choices about their framing, and the timing and selection of cases. It can threaten a system's responsiveness to both minority rights claims and majoritarian constitutional understandings.
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