http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230923-103438-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-political-process-in-search-of-a-judge/ The Political Process in Search of a Judge - The Case of the Reluctant Italian Constitutional Court Caterina, Edoardo eng 2023-09-23 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 It must be acknowledged: in Italy, a judgment such as that delivered by the German Federal Constitutional Court on 24 January 2023 on party financing is currently constitutional science fiction. The Italian constitutional judges have never theorised, unlike their German colleagues, the need for closer scrutiny in certain matters where a ‘conflict of interest’ of the legislature can be discerned. This also partly reflects a different understanding of their own role within the constitutional system.