(No) Ghost in the Shell: The Role of Values Internalization in Judicial Empowerment in Slovakia

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F23%3A00133879" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/23:00133879 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal/article/no-ghost-in-the-shell-the-role-of-values-internalization-in-judicial-empowerment-in-slovakia/03EC62EF44F620FD337B1FC686741B4A" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal/article/no-ghost-in-the-shell-the-role-of-values-internalization-in-judicial-empowerment-in-slovakia/03EC62EF44F620FD337B1FC686741B4A</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.88" target="_blank" >10.1017/glj.2023.88</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

(No) Ghost in the Shell: The Role of Values Internalization in Judicial Empowerment in Slovakia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article uses the case study of Slovakia and its lackluster experience with a judge-dominated judicial council to demonstrate that formal institutions have only limited impact on the ideational level. We show that the transformation of the Slovak post-communist judiciary relied on the presumption that judges‘ interests are automatically complementary to principles of the rule of law. Therefore, the majority of implemented reforms insulated the judiciary from the political branches of power, but allowed strong hierarchical relationships inside the courts to exist. In contrast to international expectations, judicial authorities used judicial empowerment to create or strengthen competing informal practices, which helped them to maximize their power. We argue that the lack of internalization of judicial independence might explain why institutional self-governance reforms failed to trigger changes in the professional role conception of judges in regimes riddled with deeply embedded informal institutions. In order to tackle this problem, we propose that future research on the relationship between institutional safeguards and decisional judicial independence should focus on the process through which actors internalize new institutional incentives.

Název v anglickém jazyce

(No) Ghost in the Shell: The Role of Values Internalization in Judicial Empowerment in Slovakia

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article uses the case study of Slovakia and its lackluster experience with a judge-dominated judicial council to demonstrate that formal institutions have only limited impact on the ideational level. We show that the transformation of the Slovak post-communist judiciary relied on the presumption that judges‘ interests are automatically complementary to principles of the rule of law. Therefore, the majority of implemented reforms insulated the judiciary from the political branches of power, but allowed strong hierarchical relationships inside the courts to exist. In contrast to international expectations, judicial authorities used judicial empowerment to create or strengthen competing informal practices, which helped them to maximize their power. We argue that the lack of internalization of judicial independence might explain why institutional self-governance reforms failed to trigger changes in the professional role conception of judges in regimes riddled with deeply embedded informal institutions. In order to tackle this problem, we propose that future research on the relationship between institutional safeguards and decisional judicial independence should focus on the process through which actors internalize new institutional incentives.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

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Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

German Law Journal

ISSN

2071-8322

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

8

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

1412-1431

Kód UT WoS článku

999

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85187532707