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Author: Jon Elster Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108427529 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 267
Book Description
Since 1787, constituent assemblies have shaped politics. This book provides a comparative, theoretical framework for understanding them.
Author: Jon Elster Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108427529 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 267
Book Description
Since 1787, constituent assemblies have shaped politics. This book provides a comparative, theoretical framework for understanding them.
Author: Jon Elster Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108567789 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 267
Book Description
Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus came from the study of the American and French constituent assemblies in the late eighteenth century, this volume exemplifies the large comparative scope of current research. The contributors discuss constituent assemblies in South East Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, and in Nordic countries. Among the new insights they provide is a better understanding of how constituent assemblies may fail, either by not producing a document at all or by adopting a constitution that fails to serve as a neutral framework for ordinary politics. In a theoretical afterword, Jon Elster, an inspirational thinker on the current topic, offers an analysis of the micro-foundations of constitution-making, with special emphasis on the role of crises-generated passions.
Author: Richard W. Bauman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139460404 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 553
Book Description
Unlike most works in constitutional theory, which focus on the role of the courts, this book addresses the role of legislatures in a regime of constitutional democracy. Bringing together some of the world's leading constitutional scholars and political scientists, the book addresses legislatures in democratic theory, legislating and deliberating in the constitutional state, constitution-making by legislatures, legislative and popular constitutionalism, and the dialogic role of legislatures, both domestically with other institutions and internationally with other legislatures. The book offers theoretical perspectives as well as case studies of several types of legislation from the United States and Canada. It also addresses the role of legislatures both under the Westminster model and under a separation of powers system.
Author: Udit Bhatia Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351654993 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
The essays in this volume propose a range of methodological perspectives from which these critical debates might be read. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, they explore themes such as party politics, ideas of rights, including caste and minority rights, social justice and the philosophy of free speech.
Author: Todd A. Eisenstadt Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107168228 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 223
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When building democracy through new constitutions, the level of participation matters more than the content of the constitution itself. This book examines this theory.
Author: Winton U. Solberg Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252061240 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 548
Book Description
This book contains James Madison's notes on the debates which provide a first-hand view of the drafting of the nation's fundamental charter. An introduction by Solberg places the origins of the Constitution in the broader historical perspective of the development of political theory and constitutional practice in Western civilization. The book also links the formation of the Constitution to the events of the American Revolution from the Stamp Act Crisis to the Bill of Rights. Solberg provides background on the ratification of the Constitution, biographical sketches of each participant in the Philadelphia Convention, and population figures on which representation was to be based. - Back cover.
Author: Jon Elster
Author: Jon Elster
Author: Jon Elster
Author: Patrick Fafard
Author: Richard W. Bauman
Author: Udit Bhatia
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Author: Todd A. Eisenstadt
Author: Winton U. Solberg
Author: John Alexander Jameson
Author: Alphonse Marie L. de Prat de Lamartine