... transcripts elite interviewees European Convention on Human Rights ECHR lawyers Moravcsik Andrew normative historical comparisons Judiciary elite empowerment institutional design transnational networks legal professionals causal nexus process tracing Grounded Theory case studies interviewing...

... Brexit media–Network interdependencies Meyer Sahling J H courts The Economist financial elites Financial Times France Hirschl R Lamont Norman Baron Lamont of Lerwick Stone Sweet A Franklin Benjamin Junto club Network Community political elites Judiciary branch transnational networks legal...

... transnationalism world peace esprit de Genève La Pergola esprit de Strasbourg La Pergola La Pergola Antonio utopian universalism collective identity culture of consensus elite solidarity transnational networks world peace international law supranational organs European integration Networking between...

... Constitutional Court acquis Bulgaria Judiciaries Madrid Criteria Eastern Enlargement ‘functioning Judiciary’ ‘dormancy’ common agenda elite coordination political interdependence collective action transnational networks self-empowerment democratic government ‘personnel is policy’ Network...

...Studies of the fate of Judiciaries in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been rare and attempts at causal explanation rarer. This study found that interlocked transnational networking empowered a minority of elite Judiciary revisionists to entrench their institutional template...