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Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age
Democratic dysfunction can arise in both 'at risk' and well-functioning constitutional systems. It can threaten a system's responsiveness to both minority rights claims and majoritarian constitutional understandings. Responsive Judicial Review aims to counter this dysfunction.
| Author(s) | By Rosalind Dixon (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 320 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 16 Feb 2023 |
| Availability | Available |
Democratic dysfunction can arise in both 'at risk' and well-functioning constitutional systems. It can threaten a system's responsiveness to both minority rights claims and majoritarian constitutional understandings. Responsive Judicial Review aims to counter this dysfunction.
1: Introduction 2: Constitutions and Constructional Choice 3: Defining Democracy and Democratic Dysfunction 4: The Scope and Intensity of Responsive Judicial Review 5: Democratic Dysfunction and the Effectiveness of Responsive Review 6: Risks to Demo
Rosalind Dixon is a leading global expert on comparative constitutional law, design, and democracy. She is Professor of Law and Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at UNSW Sydney, and a former assistant professor at the University of Chic
