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Constitutional Safeguards and Institutional Design

Comparative Politics
Constitutions
Democracy
P120
Edit Zgut-Przybylska
Polish Academy of Sciences
Christina Griessler
Andrássy Universität Budapest
Anna Krasteva
New Bulgarian University
Threats to Democracy and What to Do About Them: A Sciences of the Democracies Action Guide

Abstract

In many contexts, the traditional liberal safeguards of democracy - constitutions, courts, and checks and balances - are no longer working as intended. This panel starts from that sobering observation and asks: How can democratic institutions be redesigned to remain resilient when formal guarantees fail?

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