James A. Gardner's new book examines state of world’s democracies
A new book edited by CII member provides an ambitious and far-reaching roundup of current thought on the state of the world’s democracies and the struggle to make self-governance work — one nation at a time.
Gardner, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Bridget and Thomas Black Professor in the School of Law, was commissioned by the U.K.-based publisher Edward Elgar Publishing to develop and shape the book, , as part of its Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series. Gardner wrote an extensive introductory chapter and contributed his own essay on “Electoral Systems and Conceptions of Politics.”