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The New Fourth Branch - Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy (Paperback, New Ed)
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The New Fourth Branch - Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
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Twenty-first-century constitutions now typically include a new
'fourth branch' of government, a group of institutions charged with
protecting constitutional democracy, including electoral management
bodies, anticorruption agencies, and ombuds offices. This book
offers the first general theory of the fourth branch; in a world
where governance is exercised through political parties, we cannot
be confident that the traditional three branches are enough to
preserve constitutional democracy. The fourth branch institutions
can, by concentrating within themselves distinctive forms of
expertise, deploy that expertise more effectively than the
traditional branches are capable of doing. However, several case
studies of anticorruption efforts, electoral management bodies, and
audit bureaus show that the fourth branch institutions do not
always succeed in protecting constitutional democracy, and indeed
sometimes undermine it. The book concludes with some cautionary
notes about placing too much hope in these - or, indeed, in any -
institutions as the guarantors of constitutional democracy.
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