There has been a global rise in what may be termed illiberal regimes - that is to say, states and governments which reject some aspects of the ideal of the liberal democracy founded upon respect for human rights and the Rule of Law. Sometimes it is the entire regime which rejects these values, sometimes there are just elements in that regime which reject those values, what may be called illiberal tendencies in government. A variety of overlapping terms have been used to describe this: autocratic legalism, illiberal legality, democratic decay, constitutional backsliding.
The goal of this webinar is not to investigate illiberalism as a whole, but to instead examine the inter-relationship between illiberal tendencies in government and the law-making process. Do illiberal states show evidence of a particular type of law-making process? Or do certain types of law-making process make it easier to have illiberal tendencies in government? The speakers will report on the experience of Poland, Hungary, Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey and Italy.
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