In the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, the primary focus of the opposition has been on strengthening the procedural aspects of democracy, emphasising that democratic institutions remain liable, ...

Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an ...

Recognizing the difference between substantive and procedural rights helps enormously in understanding the battles over applying the first eight amendments of the U.S. Constitution to the states.

Political regimes: an ensemble of patterns within a state that determine forms and strategies of access to the process of decision making. Actors who are excluded/admitted and the rules that determine ...