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Partisan Motivated Reasoning and the Limits of Judicial Legitimacy Reform
Partisan motivated reasoning — not procedural failure — is the primary obstacle to judicial legitimacy reform. Evidence from 2023–2026 across democratic jurisdictions shows that partisan identity intercepts procedural quality signals before they reach public trust formation.
Constitutional Redesign as the Structural Mechanism for Judicial Delegitimization: Pakistan, Hungary, Poland, and the International Standards Gap
Abstract Constitutional amendment — not military coup, not executive decree — has become a dominant contemporary instrument for dismantling judicial independence across democracies with weak insulation mechanisms. Pakistan’s 26th Constitutional Amendment (2024) and 27th Constitutional Amendment (2025) represent the most structurally complete recent execution of this pattern, transferring apex court jurisdiction to an executive-appointed Federal […]