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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Impact of European Institutions on the Rule of Law and Democracy: Slovenia and Beyond by Matej Avbelj Jernej Letnar Cernic
Since 2010 the EU has been plagued by crises of the rule of law and democracy spreading from Central and Eastern Europe which have caught many by surprise. This important new work states that this surprise is unjustified. It shows how the perceived success of earlier enlargement was simply that: perceived. Taking Slovenia as their case study the authors argue that as a member state it fares even worse than its contemporary constitutionally-backsliding central European counterparts. On the basis of this more nuanced legal economic and sociological approach a better understanding of the crisis can be gained and more workable solutions prescribed.