Have you read Prof. Driesen's new book?

In The Specter of Dictatorship, Professor David Driesen analyzes the chief executive's role in the democratic decline of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey and argues that an insufficiently constrained presidency is one of the most important systemic threats to democracy.

Driesen urges the United States to learn from the mistakes of these failing democracies. Their experiences suggest, Driesen shows, that the US Supreme Court must eschew its reliance on and expansion of the "unitary executive theory" and apply a less deferential approach to presidential authority, invoked to protect national security and combat emergencies, than it has in recent years.

Ultimately, Driesen argues that concern about loss of democracy should play a major role in jurisprudence, because loss of democracy can prove irreversible. As autocracy spreads throughout the world, maintaining our democracy has become an urgent matter.

You can find out more about Prof. Driesen and his work here.

His book is available in both the Byrd library and the Barclays library under call number KF5053 .D75 2021