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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 August 2021
      12 August 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108952996
      9781108844635
      9781108948630
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108952996
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.631kg, 352 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.493kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Constitutional and Administrative Law, Political Theory, Law, Politics and International Relations, Jurisprudence
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
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    Subjects:
    Constitutional and Administrative Law, Political Theory, Law, Politics and International Relations, Jurisprudence
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
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    There is widespread agreement that democracy today faces unprecedented challenges. Populism has pushed governments in new and surprising constitutional directions. Analysing the constitutional system of illiberal democracies (from Venezuela to Poland) and illiberal phenomena in 'mature democracies' that are justified in the name of 'the will of the people', this book explains that this drift to mild despotism is not authoritarianism, but an abuse of constitutionalism. Illiberal governments claim that they are as democratic and constitutional as any other. They also claim that they are more popular and therefore more genuine because their rule is based on conservative, plebeian and 'patriotic' constitutional and rule of law values rather than the values liberals espouse. However, this book shows that these claims are deeply deceptive - an abuse of constitutionalism and the rule of law, not a different conception of these ideas.

    Reviews

    'András Sajó is one of Europe’s great defenders of human rights and democracy and one of its finest constitutional scholars. This book is an unparalleled anatomy of illiberal democracy, and its message is vitally important: all democracies, including ones that think they are immune, remain vulnerable to the corruption, institutional capture and authoritarian temptations of the illiberal form. An essential book for 2022.'

    Michael Ignatieff - Rector Emeritus Central European University

    ‘… a fascinating book.’

    Rafael Plancarte-Escobar Source: Jindal Global Law Review

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