nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181209-204056-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 181208s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181209-204056-0 doi eng 342 23 Hailbronner, Michaela Author aut How Can a Democratic Constitution Survive an Autocratic Majority? A Report on the Presentations on the Judiciary Hailbronner, Michaela Verfassungsblog 2018-12-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier European institutions and governments have come in for a lot of critique over the past few years. Sometimes such critiques have seemed unfair and hypocritical, in particular where those who criticize are no role models either (e.g. the European Union). And judging on a case-by-case basis, some the actions of the Polish or Hungarian governments seem perhaps not that extraordinary. Yet, once we look at the whole, a different picture emerges. As Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq have argued in their recent book How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, democracies can erode where we see changes with regard in the three fields key to preserving democracy: free and fair elections, the sphere of public discourse and the rule of law and the institutions enforcing it, i.e. courts and the administration. In Hungary and Poland, we see changes in all of these areas and this should worry us. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Autocracy Constitutionalism democracy Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-can-a-democratic-constitution-survive-an-autocratic-majority-a-report-on-the-presentations-on-the-judiciary/ raw object