Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Foreword to the Second Edition VII
4. Foreword to the First Edition IX
5. Figures and Tables XI
6. Introduction: Constitutional Litigation as Dispute Processing: Comparing the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court 1
7. Part I Access and Case Selection
8. Chapter 1 Constitutional Litigation in the United States 25
9. Chapter 2 Access to the German Federal Constitutional Court 62
10. Chapter 3 Mobilization of the German Federal Constitutional Court 92
11. Part II Decision Making
12. Chapter 4 The U.S. Supreme Court’s Strategic Decision-Making Process 111
13. Chapter 5 Decision Making at the German Federal Constitutional Court 146
14. Chapter 6 Junior Varsity Judges? Law Clerks in the Decisional Process of the U.S. Supreme Court 165
15. Chapter 7 Legal Assistants at the German Federal Constitutional Court: A “Black Box” of Research? 180
16. Part III Implementation
17. Chapter 8 The Implementation of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions 191
18. Chapter 9 Implementation of German Federal Constitutional Court Decisions: Judicial Orders and the Federal Legislature 210
19. Part IV Comparative Perspectives
20. Chapter 10 The U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court: Selection, Nomination, and Election of Justices 229
21. Chapter 11 The Impact of the German Federal Constitutional Court on the Consolidation and Quality of Democracy 254
22. Chapter 12 Constitutional Courts in Changing Political Systems 282
23. Index 291