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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2015
      June 2015
      ISBN:
      9781139839334
      9781107038707
      9781107654549
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139839334
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      US Law, American Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Comparative Law, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy
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    Subjects:
    US Law, American Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Comparative Law, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy
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    Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the democratic ascendency of the post-Soviet era is under severe challenge. While fragile democracies in Eastern Europe, Africa, and East Asia face renewed threats, the world has witnessed the failed democratic promises of the Arab Spring. What lessons can be drawn from these struggles? What conditions or institutions are needed to prevent the collapse of democracy? This book argues that the most significant antidote to authoritarianism is the presence of strong constitutional courts. Distinct in the third wave of democratization, these courts serve as a bulwark against vulnerability to external threats as well as internal consolidation of power. Particular attention is given to societies riven by deep divisions of race, religion, or national background, for which the courts have become pivotal actors in allowing democracy to take root.

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    'Samuel Issacharoff's new book is a major contribution to a burgeoning literature on the ways in which courts can protect and improve what the author calls 'fragile democracies' … an ambitious and wide-ranging achievement, and one that will guide the direction of work on judicial role in non-consolidated democracies for years to come.'

    David E. Landau Source: International Journal of Constitutional Law

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