Justice for All as Power to the People: Courts as Conditional Determinants of Democratic Recovery

• In Event: Courts, Federalism, and Constitutional Development

Brief Overview

Why do some democracies recover from backsliding when others collapse into authoritarianism? This paper identifies a legal path to democratic recovery reliant upon courts capable of imposing timely, consequential checks on anti-democratic executives.

Author

• Michael Hunter Driggers, University of Western Ontario