ABOUT
The tripartite model of separation of powers has been an important building block of modern constitutionalism.
Even though the situation on the ground has always been messier than this slick normative ideal and the political exigencies never held fully to the prescriptions of the tripartite model, there is an emerging consensus that separation of powers is under pressure from a significant number of novel challenges (such as the COVID-19 pandemic), both in consolidated and new democracies. This interest group examines how separation of powers responds to current socio-political forces such as populism or declining public trust in the state.