Thread by @DemocracyTalk

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS 📚

I've had the pleasure of being invited to review or respond to a range of excellent books in recent times, on a range of aspects of #constitutionallaw and #democracy worldwide.

A short thread on 7 reviews 🧵

Mark Tushnet @Mark_Tushnet, The New Fourth Branch: Institutions for Protecting Constitutional #Democracy
I see this is as a landmark book in the rapidly expanding literature on 4th branch/guarantor institutions and raise key qs
🔓 Open access @icon_journal
academic.oup.com/icon/article/2…

Emilio Meyer @pelusoemilio, Constitutional Erosion in #Brazil (@hartpublishing)
Meets a crucial gap in the global literature on #democraticdecay, anatomising a highly complex context + considering ways forward
🔓 Open access on the Suprema journal
suprema.stf.jus.br/index.php/supr…

Juliano Zaiden @JulianoZaiden, The Rule of Law in #Brazil: The Legal Construction of Inequality (@hartpublishing)
Not a written review but a book panel @ICON__S 2022
Extremely illuminating structural analysis of #democraticdecay + companion piece to Meyer
bloomsbury.com/us/rule-of-law…

András Sajó, Ruling by Cheating: Governance in Illiberal Democracy (@CUP_Law)
Not a written review but a book panel organised by @ICON_CEE
A key work for understanding processes of democratic degradation and how illiberal populist regimes function
Details: eventbrite.co.uk/e/icon-s-cee-r…

Francesco Biagi @FrancescoBiagi, European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy (@CUP_Law)
Highly incisive study of of 3 generations of constitutional courts in Europe, through case-studies of #Italy #Spain #Czechia
➡️ European Law Review - access through @WestlawUK

Ros Dixon @rosalinddixon15, Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age (@OUPLaw)
NB book on how judges might meet the current challenges of democratic crisis and dysfunction.
➡️See the debate symposium forthcoming in @NLSIRev
global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Kevin Tan + Ridwanul Hoque (eds), Constitutional Foundings in South Asia (@hartpublishing)
Fascinating study of 8 states: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives Afghanistan
➡️Forthcoming in Australian Journal of Asian Law @alc_mls
bloomsburycollections.com/book/constitut…

And how could I forget Book No.8 - John Keane @jkeaneSDN, The New Despotism (@Harvard_Press)
Another book panel, in Aug 2020, at Sydney Democracy Network, @Usyd_ssps
Highly thought-provoking argument refurbishing despotism as a conceptual framework
➡️johnkeane.net/portfolio_page…