"State of Emergency summarises and expands Christian Bj²rnskov's and Stefan Voigt's seminal research of constitutional emergency provisions: Why do emergency constitutions differ across countries, do they work as intended, and are there unintended political and social consequences of declaring a state of emergency?"--

1. Introduction; 2. The Architecture of Emergency Constitutions; 3. The Determinants of Emergency Constitutions; 4. Why Do Governments Call a State of Emergency? On the Determinants of Using Emergency Constitutions; 5. The Effectiveness of Emergency Constitutions After Natural Disasters; 6. When Does Terror induce a State of Emergency? And what are the Effects?; 7. States of Emergency After Domestic Turmoil; 8. Dealing with Disaster - Analyzing the emergency constitutions of the US states; 9. Keeping up the Balance between the Federation and the States; 10. Constitutionalized Media Freedom during Emergencies: Is it only Windowdressing?; 11. Unconstitutional States of Emergency; 12. The Corona Pandemic, States of Emergency, and Reliance on Executive Decrees; 13. Returning to the Status Quo Ante?; 14. Contracting for Catastrophe: Legitimizing Emergency Constitutions by Drawing on Social Contract Theory; 15. The Future of States of Emergency.