The Use of a State of Emergency to Turn Young Democracies into Autocratic States.

The Use of a State of Emergency to Turn Young Democracies into Autocratic States.

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“We may also suspect that they suspected that emergency powers would tend to kindle emergencies.” Robert Jackson, former US attorney general Introduction A state of emergency (SoE) is a temporary measure that allows governments to use exceptional powers outside the framework of existing ordinary laws to deal with crises that endanger the state (Pati, 2009,…