Tag: democratic erosion
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 3: The Judicial Reform Snowball and the State of Mexican Democracy
—Francisca Pou Giménez, UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 3 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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The Anna Karenina Principle and Democratic Erosion
—Miguel Schor, Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center, and Class of 1977 Distinguished Scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] Leo Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina by observing that happy families are all alike whereas every unhappy family is…
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 1: Judicial Overhaul and Democratic Backsliding in Mexico
—Tania Groppi, University of Siena (Italy)* [Editors’ Note: This is Part 1 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Local Authorities as Guarantors of the Rule of Law: Recent Developments in the Council of Europe
—Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi di Siena [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] Local government is usually absent from the theoretical debates on the pillars of constitutional law, such as human rights, separation of powers, rule of law.
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The Role of a Judge in an Electoral Autocracy
—Aparna Chandra, Associate Professor of Law and M. K. Nambyar Chair Professor on Constitutional Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] The Autocrats’ Playbook This is the year of elections.
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Symposium on the Challenges of the Lula Government in Reversing Democratic Erosion in Brazil: Introduction
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília and Conrado Hübner Mendes, University of São Paulo Bolsonaro is gone, but not bolsonarism. Neither the shadow of Bolsonaro, who left the country before Lula’s inauguration and, without recognizing electoral defeat, has been living in Florida ever since.
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Brazil’s Most Important Election Ever: What is at Stake and What Might Happen Next?
—Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, and Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília Brazil’s next elections will be held on Sunday, October 2. More than any other political event since the country’s transition to democracy in 1985, these elections are an inflection point for Brazil’s near and long future.
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From the Least Dangerous Branch of Government to the Most Democratically Disruptive Court in the World
—Miguel Schor, Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center In The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the United States Supreme Court is the least dangerous of the three branches of government as it lacks the power of the President or Congress.
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American Exceptionalism and the Capitol Riot One Year Later
—Miguel Schor, Drake University School of Law American exceptionalism is a term of art comparativists employ to write and think about the United States. Two remarkable phenomena underpin the claim of American exceptionalism. First, the United States self-consciously envisioned itself as setting an example to the world when it drafted a new constitution in the…