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The Much Ado about Judicial Politics in the United Kingdom: A Statistical Analysis of Reported Decisions of United Kingdom Courts Invoking EU Law 1973-1998

Damian Chalmers *

• Introduction
• II. The Conundrum of the Judicial Revisiting of the British Constitutional Settlement
• III. EC Law and the Constitutional Resettlement of Administrative rather than Judicial Power
• IV. The Puzzle of the Implementation of EC Law in the United Kingdom
• V. Political Reaction to Judicial Politics in the United Kingdom
• VI Judicial Tensions In the Application of EC Law
  • i The Patterning of Judicial Behaviour by the Institutional Environment
  • ii. Institutional Capabilities for Conformity as the Central Constraint on Reception of EC Law
• VII. The Pattern of Preliminary References from United Kingdom Courts
• VIII. Conclusion

* London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton St., London WC2 2AE, Tel. 0171-955-7263, d.chalmers@lse.ac.uk
There have been a number of debts accumulated in this article. Thanks go to Matt Gabel, Erik Jones, Imelda Maher, Gillian More, and Alec Stone Sweet, as well as the `London' EU Studies Discussion Group. The biggest debt is to Simon Hix to whose statistical expertise and advice this article owes a lot, but who has also been a great colleague and friend. The author, of course, has exclusive responsibility for all views, errors and omissions.

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