Rights into Structures: Judging in a Time of Democratic Backsliding

This article explores how the new generation of legalistic autocrats consolidates power—not by committing mass human rights violations as a way of consolidating power as authoritarians of the twentieth century did, but instead by attacking checks and balances so that democratic institutions are weak...

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Published in:	German Law Journal
Main Author:	Kim Lane Scheppele
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2025-03-01
Subjects:	Democratic backsliding human rights judicial independence constitutionalism ECtHR IACtHR
Online Access:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2071832225000070/type/journal_article