1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism
The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural, legal, and mental phenomenon.
Although illiberalism is most often discussed in political and constitutional terms, its study cannot be limited to such narrow frames. This Handbook comprises sixty individual chapters authored by an internationally recognized group of experts who present perspectives and viewpoints from a wide range of academic disciplines. Chapters are devoted to different facets of illiberalism, including the history of the idea and its competitors, its implications for the economy, society, government and the international order, and its contemporary iterations in representative countries and regions.
The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism will form an important component of any library's holding; it will be of benefit as an academic reference, as well as being an indispensable resource for practitioners, among them journalists, policy makers and analysts, who wish to gain an informed understanding of this complex phenomenon.
Part 1: Theoretical perspectives
1. The antiliberal idea
Stephen Holmes
2. The history of illiberalism
Helena Rosenblatt
3. Illiberalism and opposition to the Enlightenment
Graeme Garrard
4. Contemporary Christian criticism of liberalism
Gladden Pappin
5. Left and New Left critiques of liberalism
Michael C. Behrent
6. Conservativism as illiberalism
Andy Hamilton
7. Asian values, Confucianism, and illiberal constitutions
Wen-Chen Chang
8. A theory of illiberal democracy
Ulrich Wagrandl
Part 2: Forms of illiberal government
9. Illiberal regime types
Nenad Dimitrijevic
10. Hybrid regimes
Leonardo Morlino
11. Theocracy
Ran Hirschl
12. Authoritarian structures and trends in consolidated democracies
Helena Alviar García and Günter Frankenberg
Part 3: Ideas and Forces Fuelling Illiberalism
13. The ideational core of democratic illiberalism
Ruzha Smilova
14. The people in ancient times and the rise of ’popularism’
Claudia Moatti and Christel Müller
15. The illiberal potential of the people
Zoran Oklopcic
16. Identity, narratives and nationalism
Mabel Berezin
17. Illiberalism and national sovereignty
Neil Walker
18. Populism and illiberalism
Paul Blokker
19. Illiberalism and the multicultural backlash
Rita Chin
20. Illiberal democracy and the politicization of immigration
Leila Hadj Abdou
21. Gender and illiberalism
Andrea Pető
22. Illiberalism and Islam
Aziz Z. Huq
Part 4: Illiberal practices
23. Illiberal practices
Marlies Glasius
24. Surveillance in the illiberal state
Steven Feldstein
25. Media control and post-truth communication
Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter
26. Illiberal practices and the management of protest and dissent
Michael Hamilton
27. The body of the nation: Illiberalism and gender
Susanna Mancini and Nausica Palazzo
Part 5: Government and governance
28. The myth of the illiberal democratic constitution
David Landau
29. Constitutional practices in times ’after liberty’
Renáta Uitz
30. Parliaments in an Era of Illiberal Executives
David Schneiderman
31. Political parties, elections, and pernicious polarization in the rise of illiberalism
Jennifer McCoy and Murat Somer
32. The plebiscite in modern democracy
Samuel Issacharoff and J. Colin Bradley
33. Illiberal constitutionalism and the judiciary
Mirosław Wyrzykowski and Michal Ziółkowski
34. Illiberalism and the rule of law
Martin Krygier
35. Emergencies and illiberalism
Alan Greene
36. Illiberalism of military regimes
Nam Kyu Kim
37. Towards a post-liberal approach to political ordering
Philipp Lottholz
Part 6: Economy, society and psychology
38. The social requisites of illiberalism
Gábor Scheiring
39. The psychological construction of the illiberal subject
Frank Furedi
40. The psychology of authoritarianism and support for illiberal policies and parties
Stanley Feldman, Vittorio Mérola and Justin Dollman
41. Illiberal politics and group-based needs for recognition and dominance
Bjarki Gronfeldt, Aleksandra Cichocka, Marta Marchlewska, and Aleksandra Cislak
42. Illiberal economic policies
László Csaba
43. Economic Consequences of Illiberalism in Eastern Europe
Paula Ganga
Part 7: Regional and national variations
44. Asia’s illiberal governments
Tom Ginsburg
45. Cultural sources and institutional practice of authoritarianism in China
Hongyi Lai
46. The intertwining of liberalism and illiberalism in India
Arun K. Thiruvengadam
47. Indonesia’s ‘third-wave’ democratic model?
Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir and Vedi R. Hadiz
48. Latin America breathing: Liberalism and illiberalism, once and again
Roberto Gargarella
49. From antiestablishmentarianism to Bolsonarism in Brazil
Rafael Mafei, Thomas Bustamante, Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer
50. The Balkans
Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos
51. Illiberalism in East Central Europe
Gábor Halmai
52. The illiberal challenge in the European Union
Yves Bertoncini and Dominique Reynié
53. Turkey as a model of Muslim authoritarianism?
Halil Ibrahim Yenigun
Part 8: Global perspectives
54. Illiberalism and human rights
Marie-Luisa Frick
55. Free trade in peril
Michael Lee
56. International sources of democratic backsliding
Anna Meyerrose
The crisis of liberal world order
Elias Götz
Part 9: Sources of resistance
58. The weaknesses of illiberal regimes
Benjamín García-Holgado and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
59. Civil society, crisis exposure and resistance strategies
Nicole Bolleyer
60. Politics after the normalization of shamelessness
Benjamin Arditi
Part 10: Themes for future research
61. A compass for future research
András Sajó and Renáta Uitz
Biography
András Sajó is former Vice- President of the European Court of Human rights. As a judge he dealt with cases of rights violation originating in illiberal shifts in many countries. His term ended by May 2017 and he is currently University Professor at Central European University (CEU), Budapest, where he teaches constitutional law and interdisciplinary courses on the Demise of Constitutionalism. He also runs a research program of the same name. Before his judicial activity he was involved in public law projects in countries in the process of transition to democracy and taught comparative law at Cardozo Law School, NYU Law School, and CEU.
Renáta Uitz is Professor and Chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law program at Central European University, Budapest. Her teaching covers subjects in comparative constitutional law and human rights with special emphasis on the enforcement of constitutional rights. Theories and practices of good government, transition to and from constitutional democracy, questions of personal autonomy and equality, including religious liberty and sexual autonomy, are at the centre of her research interests.
Stephen Holmes is Walter E. Meyer Professorship of Law at New York University. His research centres on the history and recent evolution of liberalism and antiliberalism in Europe, the 1787 Constitution as a blueprint for continental expansion, the near- impossibility of imposing rules of democratic accountability on the deep state, the traumatic legacy of 1989, and the diffi culty of combating jihadist terrorism within the bounds of the Constitution and the international laws of war. In 1988, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a study of the theoretical foundations of liberal democracy. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2003– 2005 for his work on Russian legal reform. After receiving his PhD from Yale in 1976, Holmes taught briefl y at Yale and Wesleyan universities before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in 1978. He later taught at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Princeton before joining the faculty at NYU School of Law in 2000.
"An impressive and wide-ranging volume whose theme is deeply relevant for political theorists and practical politicians in both liberal and illiberal democracies worldwide."
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Emeritus, Yale University
"Almost everyone writing for this volume, not just the editors, seems committed to treating illiberalism as the concept that sheds the greatest light on the distinctive forms of authoritarianism or populism or ethnocentrism emerging in contemporary politics. Are they justified in doing so? Does their restricted focus pay off in greater insight into contemporary political problems? My short answer to these questions is yes."
Bernard Yack, Society
