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- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Histories
- Part III Moralities
- Part IV Pathologies
- Part V Trajectories
- 21 (Economic) Development and the Rule of Law
- 22 Democracy and the Rule of Law
- 23 Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
- 24 Punishment in the Rule of Law
- 25 Populism and the Rule of Law
- 26 An “International Rule of Law Movement”?
- 27 Rule of Law Measurement
- 28 Post-Conflict Rule of Law
- 29 A Global Rule of Law
- Part VI Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
25 - Populism and the Rule of Law
from Part V - Trajectories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Histories
- Part III Moralities
- Part IV Pathologies
- Part V Trajectories
- 21 (Economic) Development and the Rule of Law
- 22 Democracy and the Rule of Law
- 23 Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
- 24 Punishment in the Rule of Law
- 25 Populism and the Rule of Law
- 26 An “International Rule of Law Movement”?
- 27 Rule of Law Measurement
- 28 Post-Conflict Rule of Law
- 29 A Global Rule of Law
- Part VI Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
A wave of populism is now sweeping across the advanced democracies in the northern hemisphere, overturning the conventional sense that since the mid-twentieth century populism has been primarily a phenomenon of countries with personalized, presidential political systems and radical inequalities, with Latin American countries providing prominent examples. Populism evidently poses a major challenge to prevailing political systems, placing pressure in particular on established patterns of partisanship and hence on political parties. These factors, along with increasing reliance on “directly democratic” decision-making mechanisms such as referenda, raise questions about some very basic aspects of the rule of law and other features of modern constitutionalism.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law , pp. 458 - 473Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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