The Birth of Judicial Politics in France: The Constitutional Council in Comparative Perspective

by Alec Stone Sweet and Alec Stone

The French Constitutional Council, a quasi-judicial body created at the dawn of the Fifth Republic, functioned in relative obscurity for almost two decades until its emergence in the 1980s as a pivotal actor in the French policymaking process. Alec Stone focuses on how this once docile institution, through its practice of constitutional review, has become a meaningfully autonomous actor in the French political system. After examining the formal prohibition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195070348
• ISBN13: 9780195070347
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"