{"product_id":"rule-of-law-vs-majoritarian-democracy-9781509936847","title":"Rule of Law vs Majoritarian Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is more paradoxically democratic than a people exercising their vote against the harbingers of the rule of law and democracy? What happens when the will of the people and the rule of law are at odds?   Some commentators note that the presence of illiberal political movements in the public arena of many Western countries demonstrates that their democracy is so inclusive and alive that it comprehends and countenances even undemocratic forces and political agendas.   But what if, on the contrary, these were the signs of the deconsolidation of democracy instead of its good health? What if democratically elected regimes were to ignore constitutional principles representing the rule of law and the limits of their power?   With contributions from judges and scholars from different backgrounds and nationalities this book explores the framework in which this tension currently takes place in several Western countries by focusing on four key themes:  - The Rule of Law: presenting a historical and theoretical reconstruction of the evolution of the Rule of Law; - The People: dealing with a set of problems around the notion of ‘people’ and the forces claiming to represent their voice;  - Democracy and its enemies:  tackling a variety of phenomena impacting on the traditional democratic balance of powers and institutional order; - Elected and Non-Elected:  focusing on the juxtaposition between judges (and, more generally, non-representative bodies) and the people’s representation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction \u003ci\u003eGiuliano Amato (Italian Constitutional Court)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePART I WHAT IS THE RULE OF LAW ABOUT? \u003c\/b\u003e2. Rule of Law Between XVIIth and XIXth Century \u003ci\u003ePaolo Alvazzi del Frate and Alberto Torini (Università di Roma Tre, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e3. Rule of Law Metamorphoses in the Twentieth Century \u003ci\u003eLuigi Lacchè (University of Macerata, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e4. Rule of Law and Democracy \u003ci\u003eDieter Grimm (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany) \u003c\/i\u003e5. EU Rule of Law: The State of Play Following the Debates Surrounding the 2019 Commission’s Communication \u003ci\u003eBarbara Grabowska-Moroz and Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(CEU Democracy Institute)\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePART II THE PEOPLE \u003c\/b\u003e6. The People v. Democracy? The Populist Challenge to Judicial Review \u003ci\u003eJustin Collings (Brigham Young University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e7. Proceduralising the People: Deliberative Democracy, Majority Rule, and the Rule of Law \u003ci\u003eSimone Chambers (University of California at Irvine, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e8. Élite vs People \u003ci\u003eYves Mény (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e9. The Double Fiction of the People \u003ci\u003eCesare Pinelli (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e10. Stronger Together? Populist (or Non-Populist) Politics of Peoplehood \u003ci\u003eJan-Werner Müller (Princeton University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e11. Does Illiberal Democracy Exist?  \u003ci\u003eGabor Halmai (European University Institute, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e12. Majority Rule, Democracy, and Populism: Theoretical Considerations \u003ci\u003eWojciech Sadurski (University of Sydney, Australia) \u003c\/i\u003e13. New Technologies at the Service of Deliberative Democracy \u003ci\u003eJosé Luis Martì (Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona, Spain)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePART III DEMOCRACY AND ITS ENEMIES \u003c\/b\u003e14. Is Still Democracy the Worst Form of Government Except All Others? \u003ci\u003eGianfranco Pasquino (Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e15. The Old-Fashioned (or Out of Fashion?) Prohibition on a Binding Mandate \u003ci\u003eBenedetta Barbisan (University of Macerata, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e16. Party Fatigue in European Democracies \u003ci\u003ePiero Ignazi (Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e17. Market Power and Democracy \u003ci\u003eAntonio Cucinotta (University of Messina, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e18. Economic Crisis and Liberal Democracies \u003ci\u003eMoreno Bertoldi and Michele Salvati (University of Milan, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e19. Social Identities, Borders and Majorities \u003ci\u003eGian Primo Cella (University of Milan, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e\t \u003cb\u003ePART IV ELECTED AND NON ELECTED \u003c\/b\u003e20. The Role of Judges in a Representative Democracy \u003ci\u003eLord Mance (UK Supreme Court) \u003c\/i\u003e21. Closely Observed Judges, or the Great Comeback of Authoritarianism in Poland \u003ci\u003eMalgorzata Gersdorf (Supreme Court of Poland) and Mateusz Pilich (University of Warsaw, Poland)\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019976835415,"sku":"9781509936847","price":110.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509936847.jpg?v=1750781942","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rule-of-law-vs-majoritarian-democracy-9781509936847","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}