The Entrenchment of Democracy by Tom Ginsburg

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Summary

In democracies, constitutions set the term of political contestation. In our era of democratic backsliding, they shape the probabilities of democracy's survival and decay. This volume considers the legal and political issues related to constitutional design of elections, parties, and voters, featuring a diverse range of voices.

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The Entrenchment of Democracy by Tom Ginsburg

This volume of essays brings together a group of leading political scientists, legal scholars, and political theorists to describe and analyze the body of constitutional law and practice within and upon democratic institutions, in particular examining how constitutional law shapes electoral democracy. Constitutional law and practice on this question are complex and varied. This volume therefore takes a thematic and regional approach: it selects a range of key theoretical questions related to democratic constitutional design and offers a series of chapters featuring a diverse range of voices, as well as a blend of theory, qualitative studies, and quantitative methods. Readers will gain a multifaceted understanding of a phenomenon of growing importance. The volume will also be useful to students of comparative constitutionalism, who will gain a rich array of empirical evidence to stimulate further work. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, and Research Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Aziz Z. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago; his most recent book is The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction. Tarun Khaitan is the Professor (Chair) of Public Law at the London School of Economics & Political Science, and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Previously, he was the Professor of Public Law & Legal Theory at Oxford.
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ISBN 13 9781009447737
ISBN 10 1009447734
Title The Entrenchment of Democracy
Author Tom Ginsburg
Series Comparative Constitutional Law And Policy
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2024-12-05
Number of pages 282
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