Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this book sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy?

• 1: Anti-Constitutional Populist Backsliding


• 2: Before the Breakdown: 1989-2015


• 3: Dismantling of Checks and Balances (I): The Remaking of the Constitutional Tribunal


• 4: Dismantling Checks and Balances (II): Judges and Prosecutors


• 5: Undoing the Institutions of the Democratic State


• 6: Assault on Individual Rights


• 7: Why Did It Happen?


• 8: Europe to the Rescue


• 9: Illiberal Democracy or Populist Authoritarianism?

Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor at the University of Warsaw Centre for Europe.
He has written extensively on the philosophy of law, political philosophy, and comparative constitutional law. His most recent books include Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (OUP 2012) and quality and Legitimacy (OUP 2008).