The paper reflects some of the ideas of the book Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights Case Law: Beyond Compliance, using seemingly disparate approaches to the analysis of judicial decision-making: authors use arguments from political science, systems theory of law and general legal theory. The main aim of the contribution is to point out that the authors' analysis is not only indicative of the relations between national and international courts, but quite possibly more broadly of entire normative systems in the current pluralist arrangement.