The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) can review the quality of a legislative process. This article calls such review ‘active subsidiarity’ and investigates empirically when and how such subsidiarity shapes legislative processes by tracing implementation of the Court’s decision in one case: Lindheim and Others v. Norway. How did the ECtHR’s criticism of the absence of a balancing exercise shape the corrective legislative process? The article shows that the ECtHR’s reasoning caused the legislative process to include a visible balancing exercise, but that this did not enhance the democratic quality of the parliament’s work on the rights issues. The article analyses these findings from the perspective of the variety of legislative circumstances that come before the ECtHR. It is difficult to anticipate how active subsidiarity will affect legislative processes as a general matter but certain contexts, such as those of minority governments, may be more conducive to democracy enhancing effects. This has implications for how the ECtHR should formulate active subsidiarity.

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塑造斯特拉斯堡的立法程序

欧洲人权法院 (ECtHR) 可以审查立法程序的质量。本文将这种审查称为“积极的辅助性”，并通过在一个案例中追踪法院裁决的执行情况，从经验上调查这种辅助性何时以及如何影响立法程序：Lindheim and Others v. Norway。欧洲人权法院对缺乏平衡活动的批评如何塑造了纠正性立法程序？文章表明，欧洲人权法院的推理导致立法过程中包含了可见的平衡练习，但这并没有提高议会在权利问题上工作的民主质量。本文从欧洲人权法院之前的各种立法情况的角度分析了这些发现。很难预测积极的辅助性将如何影响一般的立法程序，但某些情况下，例如少数政府的情况，可能更有利于民主增强效果。这对欧洲人权法院应如何制定积极的辅助性具有影响。