The exceptional empowerment of the judiciary lately transpiring across post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) exhibits an institutional design uniformity that reflects a common origin in a networked, transnational legal professional epistemic community-cum-community of interest. Their template's success, however, heretofore inadequately explained, is traceable to an equally important but less observable causal factor: the dormancy of CEE parliaments. This article explores the phenomenon in its three modes: dormancy in originating norms; in overseeing designers; and in vetoing one's own disempowerment.
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