Table of Contents

1: Introduction - Kálmán Pócza; 2: Research methodology - Kálmán Pócza and Gábor Dobos; 3: The Czech Constitutional Court: Far away from political influence - Katarína Šipulová; 4: The German Federal Constitutional Court: Authority transformed into power? - Oliver W. Lembcke; 5: The Hungarian Constitutional Court: A constructive partner in constitutional dialogue - Kálmán Pócza, Gábor Dobos and Attila Gyulai; 6: The Polish Constitutional Tribunal: Deference beyond the veil of activism - Artur Wołek and Iga Kender-Jeziorska; 7: The Romanian Constitutional Court: Muddling through democratic transition - Csongor Kuti; 8: The Slovak Constitutional Court: The third legislator? - Erik Láštic and Max Steuer; 9: Courts compared: The practice of constitutional adjudication in Central and Eastern Europe - Kálmán Pócza, Gábor Dobos and Attila Gyulai;

About the Author

Kálmán Pócza is senior research fellow at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and associate professor at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest. He is the Principal Investigator of the JUDICON research project (www.judicon.tk.mta.hu).