Militant constitutionalism - a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?

Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt

Constitutional democracy is in decline and many would-be autocrats try to elude constitutional constraints or even to exploit constitutions in their favor. We make a number of proposals for designing constitutions that are more resilient against such attempts. A first look at the empirical evidence, however, is sobering. There is little evidence that many appealing constitutional rules are able to increase constitutional resilience.

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Year of publication:	May 2019
Authors:	Gutmann, Jerg ; Voigt, Stefan
Publisher:	[Hamburg] : Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft
Subject:	constitutional compliance \| militant democracy \| militant constitutionalism \| de jure de facto gap \| democratic backsliding \| Verfassungsökonomik \| Constitutional economics \| Demokratie \| Democracy \| Verfassung \| Constitution

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 33 Seiten)
Series:	ILE working paper series. - Hamburg : University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics, ZDB-ID 2890260-9. - Vol. no. 25 (2019)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/197530 [Handle]
Classification:	H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; k38 ; P51 - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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