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Citizens' rights are the essential connecting link between human rights and life in a democratic society. The right to be a citizen can bridge the gap between the universality of human rights and the changing political and social settings of people's lives.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Safeguards and Limits of Judicial Power -- Chapter 2. The Independence of the Belgian Constitutional Court -- Chapter 3. Between Judicial Independence and Democratic Accountability: The Function and Legitimacy of the German Federal Constitutional Court -- Chapter 4. Italy and its Constitutional Court -- Chapter 5. Bipolar Constitutionalism in The Netherlands and its Consequences for the Independence and Accountability of the Judiciary -- Chapter 6. '... destroy all sense of dependence': On the Selection and Independence of the Judiciary in Norway -- Chapter 7. Judicial Independence and Accountability in the British Constitution -- Chapter 8. Independence and Accountability of the South African Judiciary -- Chapter 9. Judicial Independence and Accountability in the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights -- Chapter 10. Accountability through Transparency and the Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union -- Chapter 11. The Last Soldier Standing? Courts versus Politicians and the Rule of Law Crisis in the New Member States of the EU -- Chapter 12. The Last Soldier Standing? Courts versus Politicians and the Rule of Law Crisis in the New Member States of the EU -- Chapter 13. The Strasbourg Court: Judges Without Borders -- Chapter 14. The Strasbourg Court: Acting Within its Limits.

Introduction -- The tension between image and reality -- Growing frictions -- Beyond the institutional form: Motivations for collective action -- Variation and the internal market -- Variations in the European Union -- Variation and the euro -- Variation in asylum, migration and border control -- Conclusions.