Ruling by Cheating
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Ruling by Cheating

Governance in Illiberal Democracy

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Ruling by Cheating

Governance in Illiberal Democracy

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781108844635
eBook ISBN
9781108956512
Topic
Jura
Subtopic
Öffentliches Recht

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Placing Illiberal Democracy: Caesarism, Totalitarian Democracy, and Unfinished Constitutionalism
  11. 2 The Emergence of the Illiberal State
  12. 3 Creating Dependence
  13. 4 They, the People
  14. 5 Constitutional Structure
  15. 6 The Fate of Human Rights
  16. 7 Profiting from the Rule of Law
  17. 8 Cheating: The Legal Secret of Illiberal Democracy
  18. Index