Table of Contents

1: Governing with Judges
2: Constitutional Adjudication and Parliamentary Democracy
3: Legislating
4: Protecting Rights
5: The Politics of Judging
6: Constructing a Supranational Constitution
7: Theory of Constitutional Politics

About the Author

Alec Stone Sweet is Official Fellow in Politics, Chair in Comparative Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Reviews

The author weaves a fascinating and intricate causal account ... this is a clearly written and painstakingly researched book. In addition to its substantive findings, it is also of methodological interest ... essential reading for any understanding of contemporary European democracy. Democratization With this book it becomes possible for the first time to teach a constitutional law course that fits comfortably into both the comparative law and comparative politics curricula. It displays the blend of theoretical sophistication and knowledge of legal realities that we have a right to expect of comparative law and politics scholarship. Martin Shapiro, James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley