The early twenty-first century appears of be a period of turmoil in many seemingly stable constitutional democracies. This panel and two others discuss such questions as these: Are there general forces weakening constitutional democracy around the world, or are there nation-specific reasons for crises that simply happen to be occurring at roughly the same time? Why have some major democracies – Canada and Australia, for example – seemingly not experienced these problems? And, finally, might the concerns some scholars have expressed be something like “crying wolf,“ that is, might the developments around the world be more or less ordinary episodes in the ebb and flow of democratic politics, that what some scholars claim to be a constitutional crisis is merely the normal constitutional triumph of political coalitions and policies they do not like?