| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Although it seemingly runs counter to the princile of democracy that a bill passed in the legislature by majority vote is declared unconstitutional and void by the court neither elected by nor accountable to the people, it can be conductive to the consolidation of a nascent democracy as is the case with Korea. The Constitutional Court of Korea (CCK) is quite active in judicial review by inter-temporal and cross-national comparisons, which is made possible by the institutional settings in which the non-elected branch of the government is relatively independent from other branches such as the President and the National Asembly. As another strategic player, both CCK as a whole and 9 justices each choose to make a particular bill (un)constitutional by taking into consideration whether it is unified/divided government at the time of each judicial review, by whom each justice was selected, and who proposed and approved the bill in the legislature.
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