Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, and Research Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Aziz Z. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago; his most recent book is The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction. Tarun Khaitan is the Professor (Chair) of Public Law at the London School of Economics & Political Science, and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Previously, he was the Professor of Public Law & Legal Theory at Oxford.

• 1. Introduction Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq and Tarun Khaitan; Part I. Understanding the Crisis: 2. Majoritarianism and minoritarianism in the law of democracy Sam Issacharoff and Richard H. Pildes; 3. Constitutions & abusive electoral regulation Rosalind Dixon and David Landau; Part II. Constitutionalization: 4. The constitutionalization of elections and parties Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg; 5. Political parties in constitutional theory Tarun Khaitan; 6. The winner shall not take all: constitutional regulation and empowerment of opposition parties in Africa Adam Abebe; 7. Parties versus democracy: addressing today's political party threats to democratic rule Tom Gerald Daly and Brian Jones; 8. What is the value of a constitutionalized right to vote? Yasmin Dawood; Part III. Specific Institutions: 9. Political parties, voting systems, and the twin challenges of fragmented and unduly concentrated political power Stephen Gardbaum; 10. Off the reservation voting: dynamic responses to diaspora Elizabeth Reese; 11. Courts as constitutional rule-makers for elections and parties: some comparative evidence Aziz Huq; 12. Eternity clauses and electoral democracy Silvia Suteu; 13. Monarchy and Democracy in Modern Malaysia Yvonne Tew; Index.