The occurrence of separate opinions at the Federal Constitutional Court : an analysis with a novel database


Wittig, Caroline



DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.240597
URL: https://zenodo.org/record/240597#.Ws8sen8uCUk
Document Type: Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication: 2016
Place of publication: Berlin
Publishing house: Logos Verlag Berlin
ISBN: 978-3-8325-4411-9 , 3-8325-4411-9 , 978-3-8325-9988-1
University: Universität Mannheim
Evaluator: Gschwend, Thomas
Date of oral examination: 2016
Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences- CDSS (Social Sciences)
School of Social Sciences > Politische Wissenschaft, Quantitative Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden (Gschwend 2007-)
Subject: 320 Political science
340 Law
300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Abstract: Courts with the right to constitutional review exert considerable power in a political system. However, especially for Kelsenian constitutional courts there are hardly any large-N studies. This is mainly due to a lack of data. For the German Federal Constitutional Court, this gap has been closed by building a novel database, the development of which is depicted in this book. Employing data from this database, the occurrence of separate opinions in general and their different types in particular are analyzed. The book introduces a new, universal theory that reconciles and expands existing explanations. In a second step, the theory is applied to the German Federal Constitutional Court. It can be proven that one factor that has been neglected so far plays a decisive role: The judges' behavior depends on the profession they pursue after their time in office. Moreover, the study shows that - contrary to the common literature - it is not mainly the topic that determines a case's conflict potential but rather the number of issues a decision has to address.




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