Foreword
Rick Pildes (New York University, USA)
1. Introduction. Ideas of Democracy and the Legitimacy of the Judicial Branch in Reviewing Electoral Rules
Cristina Fasone (LUISS University, Italy), Edmondo Mostacci (University of Genoa, Italy) and Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University, Italy)
Part I - Methodological Issues
2. Electoral Systems: A Philosophical and Historical Reading
Pasquale Pasquino (New York University, USA)
3. Methodological Individualism and Judicial Review of Electoral Legislation
Edmondo Mostacci (University of Genoa, Italy)
4. What Is Wrong with Gerrymandering?
Emmanuel Voyakis (London School of Economics, UK)
Part II - The European Context
5. Challenging Electoral Law in the Context of Parliamentary Sovereignty
Bob Watt (University of Oxford, UK)
6. The Evolution of Democracy and Judicial Review: The French Demographic Perspective
Eleonora Bottini (Universite de Caen Normandie, France)
7. The Case Law of the German Federal Constitutional Court in the Electoral Field: Continuity and Emergent Activism
Giacomo Delledonne (Sant'Anna University, Italy) and Bastian Michel (UvA Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
8. The Recent Activism of the Italian Constitutional Court in the Electoral Field
Paolo Passaglia (University of Pisa, Italy)
9. Eastern Europe: A Constitutional Building Site
Jan Sawicki (Catholic University, Milan, Italy)
10. The Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights on Electoral Matters: Towards a Minimal Procedural Conception of Representative Democracy?
Cristina Fasone (LUISS University, Italy) and Robert Bray (European Law Institute, Austria)
Part III - Beyond Europe
11. Compete or Compromise: India as a Kelsenian Democracy - 70 Years on
Rekha Diwakar (University of Sussex, UK)
12. Supreme Courts as Guardians of the 'Principio de Representacion Proporcional': A View from Latin America
Irene Spigno (Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Mexico) and Luigi Testa (Bocconi University, Italy)
13. The Japanese Supreme Court and the Right to Vote: A Careful Activism
Elisa Bertolini (Bocconi University, Italy)
14. Judicial Review and Elections in Australia
Erika Arban (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Julian Murphy (University of Melbourne, Australia)
15. Judicial Review and Elections in Canada
Michael Pal (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Sarah Burton (University of Ottawa, Canada)
16. Judicial Review and Elections in the United States
Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University, Italy) and Eugene Mazo (University of Louisville, USA)
17. Judicial Review and Elections in Africa
Berihun Gebeye (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany)
18. Conclusion
Cristina Fasone (LUISS University, Italy), Edmondo Mostacci (University of Genoa, Italy) and Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University, Italy)
