Poland will be showing us the endless ingenuity of constitutional thinkers who are genuinely committed to democracy in its many forms.
Tomás Daly
This episode was made in partnership with the Constitution Building Programme at International IDEA
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Tomás Daly is a Professor at Melbourne Law School and Director of the Democratic Decay & Renewal (DEM-DEC) platform at www.democratic-decay.org. His new project on ‘constitutional repair’ addresses a pressing question: how can a democracy be repaired after being deeply degraded, but not ended, during a period of anti-democratic government?
Key Highlights
- Introduction - 0:20
- What is Constitutional Repair? - 3:48
- Poland and its Constitutional Damage - 7:36
- Constitutional Repair in Poland - 20:06
- Avoiding Democratic Backsliding - 40:12
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Constitutional Repair: A Comparative Theory by Tomás Daly
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