Poland''s Constitutional Breakdown

Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this book sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy?

List of contents

• 1: Anti-Constitutional Populist Backsliding


• 2: Before the Breakdown: 1989-2015


• 3: Dismantling of Checks and Balances (I): The Remaking of the Constitutional Tribunal


• 4: Dismantling Checks and Balances (II): Judges and Prosecutors


• 5: Undoing the Institutions of the Democratic State


• 6: Assault on Individual Rights


• 7: Why Did It Happen?


• 8: Europe to the Rescue


• 9: Illiberal Democracy or Populist Authoritarianism?

About the author

Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor at the University of Warsaw Centre for Europe.
He has written extensively on the philosophy of law, political philosophy, and comparative constitutional law. His most recent books include Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (OUP 2012) and quality and Legitimacy (OUP 2008).

Summary

Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this book sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy?

Additional text

Wojciech Sadurski has written the kind of legal thriller you might wish were fiction ... In just a few years, Poland has been transformed from a model state to a pariah and Sadurski's account shows how and why, in ethnographic and legal detail. Ever the legal theorist, Sadurski rises above the specificity of the case to offer general reflection, substantial analysis, and a series of important lessons we can learn from the collapse of a constitutional democracy. This book is a haunting cautionary tale of our populist moment.

Product details

• Authors: Wojciech Sadurski, Wojciech (Challis Professor of Jurisprud Sadurski, Sadurski Wojciech
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780198840503
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884050-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Poland, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, Political activism, Political corruption, Political structures: democracy, Civil rights & citizenship, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, Constitution: government & the state, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Civics and citizenship, Corruption in politics, government and society, Constitution: government and the state, Political activism / Political engagement