Case notes

For those interested in a particular example of where democracy seems to be going off the boil, this page provides an accessible digest of materials linked to particular national cases.

Not all will be studied as possible cases of (anti?) constitutional populism – *indicates those likely to be the core of materials specifically developed in this project, but all cases are of interest as least as a point of comparison.

France

• Not forgetting … France

Hungary*

• Insights on TEU Article 7
• Background on Hungary

India

• India: The Importance of Fourth Branch Institutions to Constitutional Democracy

Italy

• Italy as Democracy’s Mirror

Philippines*

• Background on the Philippines

Poland*

• Political cynicism: the case of Poland
• Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown
• Towards Populist Jurisprudence?
• Poland Post-2015: Populism – Authoritarianism – Democracy
• Concilium civitas
• Webinar: Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown
• Reflections on constitutional design
• Insights on TEU Article 7
• Rescuing memory and other important thinking
• Polish courts – an insight into the worrying state of things
• Background on Poland

Romania

• Background on Romania
• From the archives – Romania

South Africa*

• Background on South Africa

USA*

• Comment on the tidal forces

Venezuela*

• Reading up on Venezuela
• Update on Venezuela
• Venezuela in a spiral – towards arbitrariness
• Background on Venezuela