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

• Populist rhetoric, constitutional legitimacy and constitutional culture
• Not forgetting … France

Hungary*

• A Pandemic of Populists
• Anti-Constitutional Populism
• Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary
• Autocratic Legalism
• Disarming the guardians

India

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

Italy

• Anti-Constitutional Populism
• Populism Constitutional Grammar, between Manipulative Borrowing and Bad Masters
• Italy as Democracy’s Mirror

Philippines*

• A Pandemic of Populists
• Anti-Constitutional Populism
• Taming the beast
• Background on the Philippines

Poland*

• A Pandemic of Populists
• Anti-Constitutional Populism
• Crises of Democracy – webinar recording
• Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary
• Democratic Backsliding: A View from Poland and Beyond
• Poland’s Presidential Elections
• CANCELLED: Towards a Democratic Jurisprudence? Lessons from Poland
• The Populist Mindset and Resentment to the Law
• 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*

• Anti-Constitutional Populism
• Constitutional Populism in South Africa
• The South African Constitutional Court’s 2018 Term
• Background on South Africa

USA*

• Comment on the tidal forces

Venezuela*

• Ruling By Cheating: Governance in Illiberal Democracy
• Venezuela: recent decisions of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court
• Reading up on Venezuela
• Update on Venezuela
• Venezuela in a spiral – towards arbitrariness
• Background on Venezuela