RT Journal Article
T1 Between justice and politics: the role of the Spanish Constitutional Court in the state of autonomies
A1 Harguindéguy, Jean-Baptiste
A1 Sola Rodríguez, Gonzalo
A1 Cruz-Díaz, José
K1 Territory
K1 Spain
K1 Constitutional court
K1 Devolution
K1 Catalonia
K1 Federalism
K1 Conflict
K1 Intergovernmental relations
AB This study focuses on the role of the Spanish Constitutional Court in the state of autonomies from 1980 to 2014. It questions the evolution of the Court in two fields. Firstly, it demonstrates that the Court profoundly shaped the contours of the devolution process through a dynamic of ‘judicialization’. Secondly, this research analyses the politicization process of constitutional justice by territorial actors. This dynamic led to the quasi-paralyzation of the Constitutional Court from 2008 to 2012 through the ruling of the reform of the Catalan statute. This article concludes the Court can be best interpreted as a ‘trustee’ aspiring to remain an independent arbiter within a framework lacking alternative fora for regulating intergovernmental relations.
PB Taylor and Francis
YR 2020
FD 2020-03-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21715
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21715
LA en
NO Territory, Politics, Governance, vol 8, nº 2, p. 222–240
NO Artículo publicado en TPG.
NO Área de Ciencia Política y de la Administración
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026