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| ISBN13: | 9780190888985 |
| ISBN10: | 0190888989 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 738 pages |
| Size: | 163x236x43 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 107 |
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Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?
Publisher: OUP USA
Date of Publication: 18 October 2018
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Short description:
To what extent is the world-including the United States-facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracies? This collection brings together leading scholars to engage critically with the crises facing constitutional democracies today. The book is organized in four parts: background and how the present situation arose; a selection of specific country studies; global themes and worldwide forces; and conclusions from the above and hypotheses about the future.
Long description:
Is the world facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracy?
There is a genuine debate about the meaning of the various political events that have, for many scholars and observers, generated a feeling of deep foreboding about our collective futures all over the world. Do these events represent simply the normal ebb and flow of political possibilities, or do they instead portend a more permanent move away from constitutional democracy that had been thought triumphant after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1989?
Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? addresses these questions head-on: Are the forces weakening constitutional democracy around the world general or nation-specific? Why have some major democracies seemingly not experienced these problems? How can we as scholars and citizens think clearly about the ideas of "constitutional crisis" or "constitutional degeneration"? What are the impacts of forces such as globalization, immigration, income inequality, populism, nationalism, religious sectarianism?
Bringing together leading scholars to engage critically with the crises facing constitutional democracies in the 21st century, these essays diagnose the causes of the present afflictions in regimes, regions, and across the globe, believing at this stage that diagnosis is of central importance - as Abraham Lincoln said in his "House Divided" speech, "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
This edited volume is an informative, insightful, and comprehensive reference tool for those seeking to understand the conditions, causes, and consequences of the contemporary decline in many constitutional democratic orders worldwide. It makes a valuable contribution to the multidisciplinary scholarship in democratization, legal theory, and comparative politics, particularly with its theoretical tools and empirical assessments that improve our understanding of the current defects of democratic regimes.
There is a genuine debate about the meaning of the various political events that have, for many scholars and observers, generated a feeling of deep foreboding about our collective futures all over the world. Do these events represent simply the normal ebb and flow of political possibilities, or do they instead portend a more permanent move away from constitutional democracy that had been thought triumphant after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1989?
Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? addresses these questions head-on: Are the forces weakening constitutional democracy around the world general or nation-specific? Why have some major democracies seemingly not experienced these problems? How can we as scholars and citizens think clearly about the ideas of "constitutional crisis" or "constitutional degeneration"? What are the impacts of forces such as globalization, immigration, income inequality, populism, nationalism, religious sectarianism?
Bringing together leading scholars to engage critically with the crises facing constitutional democracies in the 21st century, these essays diagnose the causes of the present afflictions in regimes, regions, and across the globe, believing at this stage that diagnosis is of central importance - as Abraham Lincoln said in his "House Divided" speech, "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
This edited volume is an informative, insightful, and comprehensive reference tool for those seeking to understand the conditions, causes, and consequences of the contemporary decline in many constitutional democratic orders worldwide. It makes a valuable contribution to the multidisciplinary scholarship in democratization, legal theory, and comparative politics, particularly with its theoretical tools and empirical assessments that improve our understanding of the current defects of democratic regimes.
Table of Contents:
Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? Introduction
Constitutional Crisis and Constitutional Rot
Defining and Tracking the Trajectory of Liberal Constitutional Democracy
Is the Sky Falling? Constitutional Crises in Historical Perspective
Constitutional Failure Revisited
What's New? What's Next? Threats to the American Constitutional Order
The Trump Presidency: A Constitutional Crisis in the United States?
The Democratic Resilience of the Canadian Constitution
Constitutional Culture and Democracy in Mexico: A Critical View of the 100-Year-Old Mexican Constitution
Constitution-Making and Authoritarianism in Venezuela: The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
Latin America: Constitutions in Trouble
Brexit Optimism and British Constitutional Renewal
France and the Fifth Republic: Constitutional Crisis or Political Malaise?
Constitutional Crisis in Spain: The Catalan Secessionist Challenge
A Coup Against Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Hungary
Constitutional Crisis in Poland
Beyond Legitimacy: Europe's Crisis of Constitutional Democracy
State Capture or Institutional Resilience: Is there a Crisis of Constitutional Democracy in South Africa
Three Types of Constitutional Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stealth Authoritarianism in Turkey
Israel: A Crisis of Liberal Democracy?
Constitutional Erosion and the Challenge to Secular Democracy in India
Australia's Non-Populist Democracy? The Role of Structure and Policy
Constitutional Inertia in Asia
Populism versus Democratic Governance
Populism, Racism, and the Rule of Law in Constitutional Democracies Today
Inherent Instability: Immigration and Constitutional Democracies
The Party's Over
'Religious Talk' in Narratives of Membership
Economic Inequality and Constitutional Democracy
Disabling Constitutional Capacity: Global Economic Law and Democratic Decline
Will Democracy Die in Darkness? Calling Autocracy by its Name
The Normal Exception
The Climate Crisis and Constitutional Democracies
The Crumbling of European Democracy
Comparing Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism
The Continuing Specter of Popular Sovereignty and National Self-Determination in an Age of Political Uncertainty
What's in Crisis? The Postwar Constitutional Paradigm, Tranformative Constitutionalism, and the Fate of Constitutional Democracy
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
Constitutional Crisis and Constitutional Rot
Defining and Tracking the Trajectory of Liberal Constitutional Democracy
Is the Sky Falling? Constitutional Crises in Historical Perspective
Constitutional Failure Revisited
What's New? What's Next? Threats to the American Constitutional Order
The Trump Presidency: A Constitutional Crisis in the United States?
The Democratic Resilience of the Canadian Constitution
Constitutional Culture and Democracy in Mexico: A Critical View of the 100-Year-Old Mexican Constitution
Constitution-Making and Authoritarianism in Venezuela: The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
Latin America: Constitutions in Trouble
Brexit Optimism and British Constitutional Renewal
France and the Fifth Republic: Constitutional Crisis or Political Malaise?
Constitutional Crisis in Spain: The Catalan Secessionist Challenge
A Coup Against Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Hungary
Constitutional Crisis in Poland
Beyond Legitimacy: Europe's Crisis of Constitutional Democracy
State Capture or Institutional Resilience: Is there a Crisis of Constitutional Democracy in South Africa
Three Types of Constitutional Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stealth Authoritarianism in Turkey
Israel: A Crisis of Liberal Democracy?
Constitutional Erosion and the Challenge to Secular Democracy in India
Australia's Non-Populist Democracy? The Role of Structure and Policy
Constitutional Inertia in Asia
Populism versus Democratic Governance
Populism, Racism, and the Rule of Law in Constitutional Democracies Today
Inherent Instability: Immigration and Constitutional Democracies
The Party's Over
'Religious Talk' in Narratives of Membership
Economic Inequality and Constitutional Democracy
Disabling Constitutional Capacity: Global Economic Law and Democratic Decline
Will Democracy Die in Darkness? Calling Autocracy by its Name
The Normal Exception
The Climate Crisis and Constitutional Democracies
The Crumbling of European Democracy
Comparing Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism
The Continuing Specter of Popular Sovereignty and National Self-Determination in an Age of Political Uncertainty
What's in Crisis? The Postwar Constitutional Paradigm, Tranformative Constitutionalism, and the Fate of Constitutional Democracy
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
