Mark Tushnet (Massachusetts Harvard Law School)

The New Fourth Branch

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Institutions protecting constitutional democracy, such as election commissions and anticorruption investigators, are an increasingly important feature in modern constitutions. The book explains why these institutions are needed in a world where competition among political parties can undermine rather than protect democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781009048491
• ISBN-10: 100904849X
• Artikelnr.: 62216764

Autorenporträt

Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall before beginning his teaching career. He has written more than a dozen books, including Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law (2008) and Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law (2014). He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003, and in 2002 was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Why a fourth branch - the structural logic
3. Why a fourth branch - the functional logic
4. Design issues in general
5. Design principles in practice - a survey
6. Anticorruption investigations - case studies from Brazil and South Africa
7. Electoral commissions - case studies from India, the United States, and South Korea
8. Audit agencies
9. Conclusion.