This book brings together specialists from more than 20 countries and focuses on the institutional, political, economic and social factors which determine the crisis of liberal democracies.

BERTRAND MATHIEU is Professor at the Law School of the Sorbonne-University, Past Senior member of the Council of State (S.E.), Emeritus President of the French Association of Constitutional Law, and member of the Venice Commission (Council of Europe). He is the author of Justice et politique: la dé chirure ? (Lextenso 2015); Le droit contre la dé mocratie ? (Lextenso, 2017) (traduction en hongrois, 2018, en espagnol 2021, en russe, 2021, en anglais, Law versus Democracy ? editions EPLO 2023); et Droit constitutionnel et institutions politiques (LGDJ 2022). GEORGE KATROUGALOS is Professor of Public Law at Democritus University of Greece, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2019), State Minister for European Affairs (2016-2018), Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity (2015-2016) and State Minister for Administrative Reforms of Greece (2015). He is also the Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He has published extensively in Greek, American, European and Asian legal reviews on comparative constitutional law, social rights, democracy and neoliberalism.