Samuel Issacharoff

Fragile Democracies

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how constitutional courts can support weak democratic states in the wake of societal division and authoritarian regimes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9781107038707
• ISBN-10: 1107038707
• Artikelnr.: 42202639

Autorenporträt

Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. A pioneer in the field of law of the political process, he is the author of more than 100 articles, books, and other academic works, including the seminal The Law of Democracy, 4th edition (with Pamela S. Karlan and Richard H. Pildes, 2012). Issacharoff is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the burden of modern democracy
Part I. Militant Democracy: 1. The American paradox
2. The boundaries of democracy
3. Types of threats
4. Responses to antidemocratic threats
5. Judging militant democracy
Part II. Competitive Democracy: 6. Giving up power
7. The promise of constitutional democracy
8. Transition in South Africa
9. The era of constitutional courts
10. The constitutional bargain
11. Can law protect democracy?
12. Constitutionalism in the time of fragile democracies
Epilogue: democratic objectives.