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

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2019

Constitutional democracy is in decline and many would-be autocrats try to elude constitutional constraints or even to …

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Checks and balances : enforcing constitutional constraints

Holcombe, Randall G. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/57, pp. 1-12

Constitutional political economy has focused heavily on designing constitutional rules sufficient to constrain governmental power. More attention has been devoted to designing rules that are effective constraints than on the institutions that would be required to enforce them. One problem is...

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Democratization and Countermajoritarian Institutions : The Role of Power and Constitutional Design in Self-Enforcing Democracy

Alberts, Susan; Warshaw, Christopher; Weingast, Barry R. - 2015

the new constitution is in place. Sustaining democracy involves the reciprocal ability to impose costs on the other group …Most democratic constitutions fail. The estimated half-life of a democratic constitution adopted between 1789 and 2005 … democracy to survive, it must be self-enforcing in the sense that all parties with the power to disrupt democracy – such as an …

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Non-majoritarian institutions - a menace to constitutional democracy?

Voigt, Stefan - 2023

, they have been criticized as promoting technocracy to the detriment of democracy. A number of political scientists even … direct democracy, representative democracy, and expert decision-making. …

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