Legal resistance to autocracy : the global fight to save democracy

"This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in autocratizing countries, autocratization does n...

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Other Authors Motta Ferraz, Octa??vio Luiz (Editor), Lindstaedt, Natasha (Editor), Trubek, David M., 1935- (Editor), Vieira, Oscar Vilhena (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2026.
SeriesComparative constitutional change
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN1003636489
9781003636489
9781040446416
1040446418
9781040446379
104044637X
9781041066583
9781041066590
Physical Description1 online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Law as Resilience and Law as Roadblocks : Protest Politics and Resistance in India / Moshin Alam Bhat and Aparna Chandra
  • It Can Happen Here-Resistance to Autocracy under Trump and Trumpism / Richard L Abel
  • 'A Group of Professors-Turned-Political-Activists' : Legal Resistance to Regime Changes in Israel 2023 / Ronit Levine-Schnur
  • Lawyers, Bankers and Picketers : Pro-democracy Coalition-building in Brazil / Raquel de Mattos Pimenta, De??bora Alves Maciel, Sofia Bordin Rolim, and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado
  • Defensive Democracy : The Role of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (2019-2023) / Oscar Vilhena Vieira
  • Judicial Resistance to Autocracy : South African Case Study / Nurina Ally, Heinz Klug, and Nomfundo Ramalekana
  • Repertoires of Resistance / Heinz Klug
  • Resisting Autocratization : The Case of Hungary / Ga??bor Halmai and Bojan Bugaric??
  • Personalization of Power and Sources of Resistance in Russia / Natasha Lindstaedt
  • Defenders but not Resisters : The Role of Lawyers in Putin's Russia / Kathryn Hendley
  • Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion : The People's Republic of China / Leigha C Crout
  • International Human Rights Institutions and Resistance to Autocratization : Mapping their Actions / Octa??vio Luiz Motta Ferraz and Nina M Hart
  • Economic Sanctions, Autocratization, and Human Security / Bojan Bugaric??, Natasha Lindstaedt, and David M Trubek
  • Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion : Lawyers in Resistance / Leigha C Crout, David M Trubek, and Sofia Bordin Rolim.