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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 Hailbronner, Michaela Autocracy Constitutionalism democracy 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-can-a-democratic-constitution-survive-an-autocratic-majority-a-report-on-the-presentations-on-the-judiciary/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20181209-204056-0 181208 10.17176/20181209-204056-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)