nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191115-210425-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191115s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191115-210425-0 doi eng 342 23 Meyer-Resende, Michael Author aut When Journalists Weaken Democracy or How to Better Communicate the Rule of Law Meyer-Resende, Michael Verfassungsblog 2019-11-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Discussing years of controversies between Polish lawyers and the ruling Law and Justice party, the law professor Marcin Matczak concluded: “We won the legal discussions, but we lost the public debate.” Despite manifest violations of the law, Poland’s ruling party did not lose votes in recent parliamentary elections. In Hungary the situation seems to have been even worse. The public debate was not lost, it hardly took place. That’s a problem. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Democratic Backsliding Human Rights Illiberal Democracy Populism Rule of Law rule of law crisis von der Leyen Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/when-journalists-weaken-democracy-or-how-to-better-communicate-the-rule-of-law/ raw object