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Judges without Robes: A Republican Approach to Participatory Judicial Review.
| Title: | Judges without Robes: A Republican Approach to Participatory Judicial Review. |
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| Authors: | CORTÉS-ARBELÁEZ, ALEJANDRO |
| Source: | Revista Derecho del Estado; sep-dec2023, Issue 57, p41-83, 43p |
| Subject Terms: | POLITICAL participation, JUDICIAL review, JUDGES, DELIBERATIVE democracy, REPUBLICANS, LEGITIMACY of governments |
| Alternate Title: | Jueces sin toga: una aproximación republicana al control judicial participativo. (Spanish) |
| Abstract (English): | This paper presents a republican approach to judicial review that is based on a deliberative and participatory interpretation of this institutional arrangement. The paper is divided into five sections, plus an introduction. Section I presents some considerations and clarifications regarding the concept of judicial review and the type of republican political theory that underlies the main arguments. Section II reconstructs the republican critique of judicial review. Section III shows that subscribing to a republican perspective does not necessarily lead to the endorsement of this critique and presents a defense of judicial review that relies on a republican conception of deliberative democracy that stresses the potential of this institution as a mechanism that serves to promote political participation in equal terms and that, thus, imbues judicial review with a participatory democratic legitimacy. Section IV argues that the participatory democratic legitimacy of judicial review should be seen as a gradual phenomenon whose relative strength or weakness depends on the variations of specific characteristics of the institutional context where the judiciary operates. Section V presents some conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Spanish): | Este artículo presenta un enfoque republicano del control judicial de constitucionalidad de las leyes que se basa en una interpretación deliberativa y participativa de este arreglo institucional. El documento se divide en cinco secciones, más una introducción. La Sección I presenta algunas consideraciones y aclaraciones sobre el concepto de control judicial y el tipo de teoría política republicana que subyace a los principales argumentos del trabajo. La Sección II reconstruye la crítica republicana al control judicial. La Sección III muestra que suscribir una perspectiva republicana no necesariamente lleva a respaldar esta crítica y presenta una defensa del control judicial que se apoya en una concepción republicana de la democracia deliberativa que enfatiza el potencial de esta institución como un mecanismo que sirve para promover la participación política en igualdad de condiciones y que, por tanto, dota al control judicial de una legitimidad democrática participativa. La Sección IV argumenta que la legitimidad democrática participativa del control judicial debe ser vista como un fenómeno gradual cuya fuerza o debilidad relativa depende de las variaciones de las características específicas del contexto institucional donde opera el poder judicial. La Sección V presenta algunas conclusiones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 01229893 |
| DOI: | 10.18601/01229893.n57.03 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |
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