TY - JOUR
AU - Plancarte-Escobar, Rafael
AB - Jindal Global Law Review https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-023-00198-9 BOOK RE VIE W András Sajó, Ruling by Cheating: Governance in Illiberal Democracy Cambridge University Press, 2021, Pp. 338, ISBN: 978-1-108-94863-0 Rafael Plancarte‑Escobar Accepted: 10 June 2023 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) 2023 1 Overview The study of authoritarian reversals continues to be one of the favourite topics of social scientists. The post-pandemic context has encouraged this analysis given the strengthening and resurgence of illiberal tendencies, as well as the crisis of liberal democracy. Ruling by Cheating  by András Sajó contributes to this field of study. This is a book on political change. Political change can be oriented in various direc- tions, for example, toward authoritarianism or toward greater democratization. Depending on these objectives, political leaders devise forms of institutional design. The purpose of this book is to describe the processes, instruments, and strategies for institutional design—with emphasis on the rule of law (RoL) and constitu- tions—necessary to transform a liberal democracy into an illiberal one—plebisci- tary, populist—or to consolidate an illiberal regime into a more authoritarian and even totalitarian form. This restructuring does not take place through coups d’état or overtly authoritarian or dictatorial instruments, but from within the 
TI - András Sajó, Ruling by Cheating: Governance in Illiberal Democracy
JF - Jindal Global Law Review
DO - 10.1007/s41020-023-00198-9
DA - 2023-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/andr-s-saj-ruling-by-cheating-governance-in-illiberal-democracy-laWoM6tizA
SP - 137
EP - 144
VL - 14
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -