Belgian Constitutional Court - Conflicts between regions, communities and the central government - Allocation of competences - Decisions with high political content - Degree of political alignment between the parties in litigation and judicial behaviour at the Court - Empirical testing - All decisions of the Belgian Constitutional Court, 1985-2012 - Alignment between the alleged political preferences of the judges and the political affiliation of the Petitioner increases the rate of success of the latter.

doi.org/10.1017/S1574019617000050, hdl.handle.net/1765/100267
European Constitutional Law Review
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dalla Pellegrina, L. (Lucia), De Mot, J., Faure, M., & Garoupa, N. (2017). Litigating Federalism: An Empirical Analysis of Decisions of the Belgian Constitutional Court. European Constitutional Law Review (Vol. 13, pp. 305–346). doi:10.1017/S1574019617000050