This chapter presents a methodology for studying why particular post-communist European
neo-militant democracies emerge, while others decline or transform into quasi-militant …

Artificial Intelligence influences democratic norms and principles. It affects the quality of
democracy since it triggers hoaxes, irresponsible political campaign, and data privacy …

Two hundred years ago, Benjamin Constant presented his fa-mous lecture in Paris on The
Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of Moderns. 1 Writing in the aftermath of the …

The essential role of parties in democracies makes it important to keep them democratic.
This article argues for sortition-based citizens' assemblies (CAs) organized in and by civil …

This research aims to give insight into the processes of public interaction between the police
and antigovernment protesters during the Coronavirus Crisis in Poland by evaluating crowd …

After a decade of worryingly adverse trends in democracy, this book goes somewhat against
the analytical grain in exploring efforts to uphold and improve European democratic …

This paper considers how ambiguously anti-democratic political parties can be responded to
in an effort to protect the constitutional system. The first part of the paper presents the idea of …

The contemporary crisis in relation to constitutional literacy relates not to the lack of
knowledge that citizens possess about fundamental constitutional texts, but to the …

The constitutional amendment mechanism of the Mexican Constitution of 1857 (reproduced
in the Constitution of 1917) and Article V of the US Constitution are very similar in design …

Political accountability is essential for maintaining trust and transparency in governance.
However, the factors that influence political parties' accountability remain underexplored in …