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Governance in Transition Societies brings together a diverse group of scholars from East and Southeast Asia with an interest in political transitions. The edited volume critically examines the nuances of governance and political change in the region. The book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students who are concerned with political and developmental trends in East and Southeast Asia. Contributors offer comparative insights that will appeal to a wider audience concerned with emerging patterns of governance and democracy. Adam Tyson, Associate Professor and Pro Dean International, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leeds, UK This book brings together scholars based in, or had previously been based in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries, building on their respective primary empirical data and first-hand experience as academics and think tank researchers, in order to pluralise the current debates about governance in transitional societies. In an era of global democratic backsliding, this edited volume offers less-explored local perspectives, to balance the Western-centrism observed in area studies and the focus on former Soviet countries in transit. What is the future of governance in Asia? This book, by attempting to supply a diversity of answers, will interest political scientists, economists, and journalists

This book examines the responsibility of judges of domestic courts following unconstitutional usurpation of power of government (coups d'tat). It explores judges' liability for failing to discharge their judicial duty independently and impartially, and the criminality of usurpers and their accomplices and collaborators for their violation of fundamental rights and freedoms or commission of crimes of international concern. Written by a highly regarded non-Western author, the book is coherent and meticulously researched, covering an approach to coups in an insightful and fascinating fashion. It includes a sophisticated and thorough analysis of the relevant comparative jurisprudence of domestic and international courts, with concrete examples of the best practices among decisions of domestic courts in countries that have experienced coups d'tat. With an increasing global interest in the phenomenon of coups, democratic backsliding and the place and role of the judiciary as the only hope to rein in acts of unconstitutional usurpation of power, the book will be essential reading for members of the legal profession, those cherishing democracy as well as students and researchers in constitutional law, law and political science, public international law, international human rights law, international criminal law, regime changes, transitional justice and international organizations.

The EU is currently facing multiple crises, ranging from democratic backsliding to migration, and its so-called "rule-based order" is challenged by both internal and international circumstances. Nevertheless, the EU is an evolving international actor and, despite the shortfalls, it has provoked the hopes of being a normative international actor which defends multilateralism and rule-based order. This edited volume re-examines the EU as an international actor and power in the context of recent challenges both in the EU and in international politics, and addresses the following questions: Does the EU make a difference in various regions and issue areas? Is it influential and visible? What kind of a power is the EU regarding these regions? How is the EU perceived by other powers? What are the main threats perceived by the EU and how will the EU address these threats? How will the EU defend its values under current circumstances? This research focuses on the migration and asylum policies of the EU as a key area, and examines the EU's role as an international actor in neighbouring regions and in Africa and China. The book provides a context in current international circumstances and will be useful for students and practitioners.

"The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority. This two-pronged crisis undermines the ECtHR's legitimacy and consequently the functioning of the whole European human rights regime. Domestic courts can serve as welcome allies of the Strasbourg Court. They have a potential to diffuse Convention norms domestically, and therefore prevent and filter many potential human rights violations. Yet, we know very little about how in fact domestic courts actually treat the Strasbourg Court's rulings. This book brings unique empirical findings on how often, how and with what consequences domestic judges work with the ECtHR's case law. It moves beyond the narrow concept of compliance and develops a new three-level methodology for analysing the role played by domestic courts in the implementation of ECtHR case law. Moreover, using the example of Czechia, it shifts the attention from Western countries to a more volatile Central and Eastern European region, which has recently witnessed democratic backsliding and backlash against international checks on human rights and the rule of law standards. Looking at a wider social and legal context, this book identifies factors helping transitional countries to adapt to regional human rights regimes"--

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- About the editor -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Public opinion and democracy -- PART I THE MEANING AND MEASUREMENT OF PUBLIC OPINION -- 2. Diagnosing survey response quality -- 3. The quantitative assessment of public opinion -- 4. The qualitative study of public opinion -- 5. Implicit attitudes and mass political opinion -- PART II THE ORIGINS OF PUBLIC OPINION -- 6. Genopolitics -- 7. Personality, public opinion, and politics -- 8. Political socialization -- PART III THE STRUCTURE OF PUBLIC OPINION -- 9. The conditional nature of ideology in mass publics -- 10. Core values -- 11. Ambivalence in mass politics -- 12. Partisanship and public opinion -- 13. Race and public opinion: American dilemma, American divide -- 14. Public opinion and gender -- 15. The religious politics of threat in religion and politics research -- PART IV ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON PUBLIC OPINION -- 16. Electoral geography, political behavior and public opinion -- 17. Media effects and news exposure: new forms of data to address old questions -- 18. Affective polarization in the American public -- PART V THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PUBLIC OPINION -- 19. Heuristics and cues -- 20. Emotions in politics: The relevance of groups -- 21. Motivated reasoning in politics -- PART VI PUBLIC OPINION AND DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP -- 22. Political knowledge -- 23. Political tolerance in an age of liberal democratic backsliding -- 24. New thrusts and new opportunities in the study of citizen performance in democratic societies -- PART VII PUBLIC OPINION AND GOVERNMENT -- 25. The nature of political trust in mass publics -- 26. On collective representation -- 27. Courts and public opinion: a critical review -- PART VIII PUBLIC OPINION AND PUBLIC POLICY -- 28. Economic opinion.

The growing middle classes in middle-income countries may play a key role in current trends of democratic backsliding, online activism and lifestyle politics. This contribution uncovers which modes of political participation are prevalent among the middle classes in Peru and the Philippines, including new forms of online participation and lifestyle politics for sustainability. Drawing on household surveys conducted in 2018, we use latent class analysis and logit regressions to analyse, first, the characteristics of online vs offline participation, and second, the role of political consumption and online activism for political participation dynamics. The latter analysis contributes to the gateway/getaway debate of lifestyle politics. In both countries, we find four comparable classes: a substantial disengaged class that is not engaging in any political participation, an all-round activist class, an online activist class and a class that mostly engages in civil society activities. Further classes with specific participation patterns and socio-demographic characteristics could be identified for each country. Although the online activists in both countries are unlikely to engage in any other form of political participation, a clear empirical case for lifestyle politics as a separate mode of participation only exists among young Peruvians with a steady job. In the Philippines, political consumption as a form of lifestyle politics blends in with other types of political participation.

"The sixteenth book in The Elections in Israel series, this book covers an extraordinary political event of having four national elections in two years, which were much (but not all) about one person, "King Bibi". Analysing Israel's national elections from 2019-2021, this book argues the four elections became, to a large extent, a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, the incumbent Prime Minister and head of the Likud party, facing investigations, a hearing, and indictment on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Thus, the first part of the book is dedicated to political personalization and to Netanyahu himself. The second part of the volume covers the traditional actors in parliamentary elections: voters, parties and the mass media. The book relies on empirical analysis, including extensive use of the Israel National Election Studies data; on theoretical rigor; and on the contextualization of the elections from comparative and long-term perspectives. The book should interest students and researchers of Israeli politics and society, electoral studies and the crisis of democracy more generally. Many chapters will be of interest to political science, communications and sociology students and scholars who study themes that are prominent on the academic and public agenda including political personalization and personalized politics, populism, party decline, and democratic backsliding"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: A New Radical Right in the Global South? -- Economic Development and Political Subjectivity -- Persistent Authoritarianism and Democratic Backsliding -- The Nuances of Nationalism for the Radical Right in the Global South -- Conservatism and Its Reactions -- A Note On the Book Confection -- Note -- References -- 1 Fascisms: A View From the South -- The Cultural Turn -- The Internationalist Turn -- Breaking the Consensus -- Fascism Outside Europe: Latin America -- Transnational Fascism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 India's Fascist Democracy -- Introduction -- Modi in Power -- Consolidating Power -- Conceptualising the Rise of the Right in India and Beyond -- Authoritarianism -- A Populist Resurgence -- Exclusionary Regime -- Ethnic Democracy -- Fascism -- A Fascist Democracy -- Ideational Themes Underpinning Democracy in India and Bihar Since 1989 -- Social Justice -- Hindu Nationalism -- Economic (neo-)liberalisation -- Material Consequences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Left, Right, Left: Moving Beyond the Binary to Think Fascism in Africa -- Introduction -- Authoritarianism in Africa -- Left, Right, Left -- The EFF: Just a Jump to the Left? -- Populist Discursive Style of Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric -- Racialisation in the Definition of 'The People' and Its Enemies -- Violence as Method Eclipsing Politics -- Economic Predation -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Populism in Emerging Economies: Authoritarian Politics, Labour Precariousness, and Aspirational Classes in Brazil, India… -- Introduction -- Aspirations Amidst Precariousness -- Turning Right? Class and Political Subjectivity -- Resentment and Beyond -- Final Remarks -- Notes -- References.

Venezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. In his new book, Autocracy Rising, veteran scholar of Latin American politics Javier Corrales explores how and why this happened. Corrales focuses on two themes: party systems and institutional capacity. He argues that Venezuela's democratic backsliding advanced when the ruling party obtained far too much electoral clout while the opposition fragmented. The state then took control of formerly independent agencies of the state. This allowed the ruling party to use and abuse of the law to favor the president - which in turn generated a permanent economic crisis. After succeeding Hugo Chávez in 2013, Nicolás Maduro confronted, unexpectedly, another change in the party system: a rising opposition. This triggered deeper autocratization. To survive, the state was compelled to modernize autocratic practices and seek alliances with sinister partners. In short, Maduro concentrated power, paradoxically, by sharing power. Autocracy Rising compares what occurred in Venezuela to twenty other cases throughout Latin America where presidents were forced out of office. Corrales illuminates the depressing cycle in which semi-authoritarian regimes become increasingly autocratic in response to crisis, only to cause new crises that lead to even greater authoritarianism.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction. Comparative constitutional change: a new academic field -- PART I: The study of comparative constitutional change: theoretical and methodological aspects -- 2. Comparative methodology and constitutional change -- 3. Order from chaos? Typologies and models of constitutional change -- 4. Constitutional endurance -- 5. Constitutional amendment versus constitutional replacement: an empirical comparison -- 6. Varieties of liberal constitutionalism -- PART II: Formal constitutional change -- 7. Formal amendment rules: functions and design -- 8. Constitutional design through amendment -- 9. The uses and abuses of constitutional unamendability -- 10. Federalism and constitutional change -- 11. Participatory constitutional change: constitutional referendums -- PART III: Informal constitutional change -- 12. Political practice and constitutional change -- 13. Judge-made constitutional change -- 14. Global values, international organizations and constitutional change -- 15. Crises, emergencies and constitutional change -- 16. The material study of constitutional change -- PART IV: Contemporary challenges in the theory and practice of comparative constitutional change -- 17. Constituent power and European constitutionalism -- 18. Populism and constitutional change -- 19. The democratic backsliding in the European Union and the challenge of constitutional design -- 20. Constitution and self-determination -- 21. Gender in comparative constitutional change -- PART V: Case studies: distinct profiles of constitutional change -- 22. The future of UK constitutional law -- 23. Constitutional change in Australia: the paradox of the frozen continent.

Intro -- Preface -- Praise for Reviving Classical Liberalism Against Populism -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Classical Liberalism Against Populism -- References -- 2 Populism: Defining Characteristics -- Unserious and Ill-Founded Policies -- A Rhetorical Style and Discourse Frame -- Left- and Right-Wing Populism -- An Autocratic Institutional Orientation -- The Populist Strategies -- References -- 3 A Threat to Liberty, Free Markets, and the Open Society -- Populist Voter Support -- Democratic Backsliding -- A Worldwide Illiberal Turn -- References -- 4 Explaining Populism and Autocratization -- Analyzing Populism as Autocratic Institutional Change -- Globalization, Immigration, and Policy Failures -- Culture and Identity -- Psychology and Human Nature -- Social Media and Echo Chambers -- Charismatic Leaders and Policy Entrepreneurs -- Explaining Populist Institutional Change -- References -- 5 The Populist Divisive, Activist Ideas -- A Politics of Resentment and Recognition -- The Ideas Behind the Populist Strategies -- Identity as a Function of Meaning, Community, and Virtue -- Meaning -- Community -- Virtue -- A Collectivistic Identity Politics -- References -- 6 The Classical Liberal Ideas, Predicaments, and Potentials -- The Liberal Predicaments -- The Three Dimensions of Classical Liberalism -- The Liberal Institutions -- The Liberal Economy and Society -- The Liberal Spirit -- The Liberal Potentials -- References -- 7 Expose the Populist Strategies and Their Consequences -- References -- 8 Defend and Develop the Liberal Institutions -- Improve Liberal Literacy -- Secure a Strong, Limited, and Decent State -- Support Federalism and Decentralization -- Stimulate Social Mobility -- Strengthen Integration -- Restore Public Discourse -- References -- 9 Embrace and Promote the Liberal Spirit.

"Even in this precarious moment for American democracy, the institutions of American federalism-that is, state governments-remain almost universally lauded. For many, the present era of national partisan polarization makes local politics even more appealing. The truth about federalism in this polarized age, however, is a bit more concerning, as Grumbach details. As the state level has become an increasingly important site of public policies that affect Americans' lives, it is also accelerating the distressing trends of the current era, including plutocratic politics, racial inequality, and democratic backsliding. The book develops a theory of the interaction between federalism and polarization, debunking common myths and misunderstandings that underpin widespread support of state governments. Whereas the framers thought federalism would incentivize state governments to customize policy to local preferences, the state level is increasingly dominated by national groups who exploit the low-information environments of amateur legislatures, inattentive local media, and identity-focused voters. Not only are well-resourced groups advantaged, but polarization diminishes the incentives for state governments to learn from the experiences of other policy laboratories. A state may risk their party's national reputation by emulating a successful policy from a state controlled by the opposing party. Taken together, this theory of polarized federalism suggests that polarization disrupts the oft-lauded features of federalism so common to theories of American governance"--

This timely book explores a critical new juncture where globalisation is in retreat and global norms of behaviour are not converging. Frank Vibert provides an expert analysis on how this situation has arisen from a combination of changes in the relative power and position of nations and the different values behind the organisation of domestic government in democracies and authoritarian states. Vibert challenges the assumption that differences in the way countries organise their domestic form of government can be kept separate from rulemaking at the international level. The book examines how democracies can defend their own values relative to others, the methods of influence, and the ways of managing conflict between contending values. Comity maps a path away from impasse to where democracies cooperate to make rules for themselves that can then be extended to others. It also discusses the legitimacy of this form of international rulemaking. Vibert concludes with the need for democracies to address their own democratic backsliding and to refresh their alliances with other democracies. This book steps back from conventional claims that we are heading towards an ever more globalised world and sets out the importance of norms in shaping institutions, relationships and the techniques of rulemaking. The book will be critical reading for scholars of international relations, constitutional and administrative law, regulation, and international politics. It will also be useful for practitioners in international organisations, governments and administrative bodies.

Comparative constitutional change : a new academic field / Xenophon Contiades & Alkmene Fotiadou -- Comparative methodology and constitutional change / Jaakko Husa -- Order from chaos? : typologies and models of constitutional change / Oran Doyle -- Constitutional endurance / Tom Ginsburg -- Constitutional amendment versus constitutional replacement : an empirical comparison / David Law & Ryan Whalen -- Varieties of liberal constitutionalism / Mark Tushnet -- Formal amendment rules : functions and design / Richard Albert -- Constitutional design through amendment / Manfred Stelzer -- The uses and abuses of constitutional unamendability / Yaniv Roznai -- Federalism and constitutional change / Nathalie Behnke & Arthur Benz -- Participatory constitutional change : constitutional referendums / Eoin Carolan -- Political practice and constitutional change / David Feldman -- Judge-made constitutional change / Joel I. Colón-Ríos -- Global values, international organizations and constitutional change / Helle Krunke -- Crises, emergencies and constitutional change / Giacomo Delledonne -- The material study of constitutional change / Marco Goldoni & Olcay Tarik -- Constituent power and European constitutionalism / Chris Thornhill -- Populism and constitutional change / Paul Blokker -- The democratic backsliding in the European Union and the challenge of constitutional design / Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz -- Constitution and self-determination / Zoran Oklopcic -- Gender in comparative constitutional change / Silvia Suteu -- The future of UK constitutional law / Robert Blackburn -- Constitutional change in Australia : the paradox of the frozen continent / Elisa Arcioni & Adrienne Stone -- Preservationist constitutional change in Latin America : the cases of Chile and Brazil / Juliano Zaiden Benvindo -- Informal constitutional change in unlikely places: the case of South Africa / James Fowkes -- Constitutional changes in Japan / Yasuo Hasebe.

Vladislava Stoyanova, 'Inherent instability or tipping of the balance : populism, immigration, and liberal democracies' populism, immigration, and liberal democracies' -- Patricia Mindus, 'On population design. using migration law to dismantle constitutional democratic institutions' -- Gregor Noll, 'Viciously circular : will ageing lock the European Union into immigrant exclusion?' -- Thomas Spijkerboer, 'Coloniality and recent European migration case law' -- Alezini Loxa and Vladislava Stoyanova, 'Migration as a constitutional crisis for the European Union' -- Jan Wouters and Maaike De Ridder, 'Possibilities and limits of European Union action against democratic backsliding and decline of migrants' rights in member states' -- Barbara Grabowska-Moroz and Dimitry Kochenov Moroz and Dimitry Kochenov, 'The loss of face for everyone concerned : EU rule of law in the context of the "migration crisis" -- Kriszta Kovács and Boldizsár Nagy, 'In the hands of a populist authoritarian : the agony of the Hungarian asylum system and the possible ways of recovery' -- Barbara Mikołajczyk and Mariusz Jagielski, "Good change" and the migration policy in Poland in a trap of democracy' -- Stefano Zirulia and Giuseppe Martinico, 'Criminalising migrants and securitising borders : the Italian "no way" model in the age of populism' -- Margit Ammer and Lando Kirchmair, 'The restriction of refugee rights during the ÖVP-FPÖ coalition 2018-2019 in Austria : consequences, legacy, and potential for future resilience against populism' -- Ellen Desmet and Stijn Smet Ellen Desmet and Stijn Smet, 'Right-wing populism, crumbling migrants' rights, and strategies of resistance in Belgium' -- Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Anna-Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Anna-Sara Lind Sara Lind, 'A stable yet fragile system? legal resilience against rights erosion in current Swedish migration policy' -- Bas Schotel, , "Populism? it's administrative law, stupid!" how administrative law subverts legal resilience.