Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? II TOC

Mark Graber

The final version of the second edition is now at Oxford University Press.  We have amazing chapters and authors.  The most comprehensive study of democratic decline and resilience throughout the world.  Much thanks to Mark Tushnet, Sandy Levinson, and Antonia Baraggia for their editorial help.  All publicity is good.  TOC below.

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS? II

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.     Antonia Baraggia, “Introduction,”

PART ONE: BACKGROUND

2.     Keith E. Whittington, “Defining Constitutional Crises”

3.     Zachary Elkins, “Is the Sky Falling? Constitutional Crises in History Perspective”

4.     Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq, “Defining and Tracking the Trajectory of Liberal Constitutional Democracy”

5.     Laura Gamboa, “Democratic Resilience in the 21^st Century”

6.     Kim Lane Scheppele, “The Frankenstate, Revisited”

7.     Mark Tushnet, “Proto-Authoritarianism and Abusive Constitutionalism”

PART TWO: COUNTRIES

8.     Vicki C. Jackson, “Knowledge Institutions and Constitutional Democracy’s decline: a U.S. Case Study”

9.     Mark A. Graber, Mark Tushnet, Sandy Levinson, and Antonia Baraggia, “Letters from the Editors: Democratic Decline in the United States”

10.  Emily Zackin, “Constitutional Democracy and the U.S. States”

11.  Mariana Velasco-Rivera, “Understanding Mexico’s Democratic Decline”

12.  David Landau and Raul Sanchez-Urribarri, “Courts and Constitutions in an Evolving Autocracy: Venezuela”

13.  Marcela Prieto Rudolphy and Sergio Verdugo, “Not a Zombie Constitution: Limited Resilience and Chile’s Unfinished Constitutional Journey”

14.  Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer, “Brazil: Between Erosion and Collapse”

15.  Erin F. Delaney and Julie E. Smith, “The UK Constitution: Parliament on the Precipice”

16.  Nicoletta Perlo, “When Democracy Bleeds: Constitutional Rot in France”

17.  Monica Claes and Joost Sillen, “Guardrails under Strain: the case of the Netherlands”

18.  Michaela Hailbronner and Felix Oldenberg, “Right-Wing Extremist and Militant Democracy in Germany”

19.  Victor Ferreres Comella, “Constitutional Crisis in Spain: The Rise and Fall of Catalan Secessionism”

20.  Giuseppe Martinico, “Is Italy a Case of Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?”

21.  Wojciech Sadurski and Anna Wójcik, “Constitutional Crises in Poland: An Uneasy Pathway to Democratic Restoration”

22.  Jens Woelk, “The Western Balkans: ‘Stabilitocracy’ or Democratic Transformation?”

23.  Yaniv Roznai and Noam Gidron, “Israel – Populism, Polarization and the Crisis of Democracy”

24.  Francesco Biagi, “Tunisia: The Illiberal Populist Project of an Unconstitutional Constitutional Scholar”

25.  Rabiat Akande, “Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? A View From Nigeria”

26.  James Thuo Gathii, “Kenya’s Debt Induced Constitutional Crisis: 2023-25”

27.  Penelope Andrews, “Constitutional Crisis or Mere Growing Pains: Reflections on 30 Years of South African Democratic Constitutionalism”

28.  Madhav Khosla and Milan Vaishnav, “India after Democracy”

29.  Geser Ganbaatar, “Democratic Backsliding in Mongolia”

30.  Keigo Komamura, “The Death or Reincarnation of the Constitution of Japan: A Nation of ‘Constitutional Change Without Amendment”

31.  Chien-Chih Lin, “Constitutional Crisis in Taiwan: Domestic Factors, External Factors”

32.  Joel Colón-Ríos and Sir Geoffrey Palmer, “New Zealand: An Exception to Democratic Decline?”

33.  Rosalind Dixon and Anika Gauja, “Australia’s Non-Populist Democracy? The Importance of Electoral Design & Institutional Adaptation”

PART III: CHALLENGES

34.  Thomas M. Keck, “Free Speech, Constitutional Democracy, and Democratic Backsliding”

35.  Yasmin Dawood, “Electoral Resilience and the Democratic Governance Model”

36.  Jeff King and Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, “Health Emergencies and Democratic Erosion: did the Covid-19 pandemic help autocratization?”

37.  Bojan Bugaric, “When Populism Meets Neoliberalism: Constitutional Order in Crisis”

38.  Susan-Rose Ackerman, “Kleptocracy and Corruption’s Impact of Democracy”

39.  Kamala Sankaran, “Identity and Constitutional Design”

40.  Ayelet Shachar, “The Inversion Paradox: Majorities Taking on the Minority Label”

41.  Sanford Levinson, “Reflections on Secession—and World Government”

42.  Ran Hirschl, “A Constitutional Crisis of Scale”

PART IV: CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS

43.  Ming-Sung Kuo and Hui-Wen Chen, “Finding the Place in Constitutional Democracy”

44.  Mark A. Graber, “Navigating the Pluralist Autocracy Challenge to Contemporary Constitutional Democracy”