1 Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?: Introduction

Constitutional democracies and constitutional democracy appear in trouble throughout the world. The United States, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Hungary, Poland, and Venezuela seem particular problem children, but the Catalonian secession in Spain, Brexit in the United Kingdom, the rise of authoritarian constitutionalism in South Asia, the overthrow of the Morsi government in Egypt, and the continued weakness of constitutional democracy throughout Africa and Latin American suggest that no earthly haven is immune to whatever is ailing regimes that purport to be...