European Constitutional Court Network Data (OA edition)

Full edition for public use. Constitutions contain the most important rules of our political systems and Constitutional Courts are the most powerful judicial institutions of European states. They are the guardians of the Constitutions and ensure, for instance, the respect for fundamental rights. Since the 20th century their importance is ever growing, which attracted a lot of interest from academia and beyond. Yet, despite numerous investigations, we know little about how and to what extent different Constitutional Courts cite each other. The dataset at hand informs about the number of citations per year across national European constitutional courts, the European Court of Human Rights as well as the European Court of Justice. The respective dataset is relational and measures how frequently and when a specific court cites another court as well as how frequently and when a specific court gets cited by another court.面向公共使用的完整版数据集。宪法承载着一国政治体系中最为核心的运行准则，而宪法法院（Constitutional Court）是欧洲各国最具影响力的司法机关。它们作为宪法的守护主体，切实保障公民基本权利的落实。自20世纪以来，其重要性与日俱增，由此引发了学术界乃至更广泛领域的高度关注。然而，尽管已有诸多相关研究，学界对欧洲各国宪法法院之间相互援引的具体方式与援引程度仍知之甚少。本数据集涵盖欧洲各国国家宪法法院、欧洲人权法院（European Court of Human Rights）以及欧洲法院（European Court of Justice）的年度援引次数统计。该数据集为关系型数据集，可量化特定法院援引其他法院的频次与时间节点，以及特定法院被其他法院援引的频次与时间节点。