Part I
1. Lineages of the rule of law
2. Power, rules, and compliance
3. Obedience and obligation in the Rechtsstaat
4. The political foundations of democracy and the rule of law
5. Why do political parties obey results of elections?;

Part II
6. The majoritarian reading of the ‘rule of law’
7. How can the rule of law rule? Cost imposition through decentralized mechanisms
8. Dictatorship and the rule of law: rules and military power in Pinochet’s Chile

Part III
9. Courts as instruments of horizontal accountability: the case of Latin Europe
10. Rule of democracy and rule of law
11. The rule of law as a political weapon
12. The question of the rule of law in Michel de Montaigne’s Essais