Dealing with Rule of Law Crises in the European Union: Challenges from a Comparative Federalism Perspective

Places the EU’s rule-of-law backsliding in comparative context, drawing on the historical experience of the United States as a federal system that has weathered its own constitutional crises. By comparing judicial, institutional and financial responses in the EU and the US, the book identifies shared patterns and differing strategies for safeguarding the rule of law in Member States.