In this season of the Efficient Secrets podcast, I’m going to be talking to experts at the University of Oxford, along with some other guests, about how constitutional studies can help us understand democratic backsliding – the increasingly prevalent process by which consolidated democracies begin to degrade the rights and freedoms supposedly guaranteed by their constitutions.

This podcast is part of a broader project, the Constitutional Studies Forum, which will bring together scholars of law and politics to understand the challenges faced by liberal constitutional democracies across the world today.

In this first episode, I sat down with the founders of the Forum – Professor Petra Schleiter from the department of politics, and Professor Nick Barber from the faculty of law – to talk about aims of the forum and why we’ve chosen democratic backsliding as our first topic.

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