Constitutionalism and political reconstruction / edited by Saïd Amir Arjomand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arjomand, Said Amir.

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

International comparative social studies 1568-4474 ; v. 14.

International comparative social studies, 1568-4474 ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative government.

Constitutional history.

Rule of law.

Physical Description:

vii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

The themes of nation-building, post-colonial modernization and constitution-making, post-communist return to the rule of law and constitutional reconstruction, the global expansion of judicial power and judicial activism by the constitutional courts are usually studied by different specialists with somewhat narrow foci. This book is a unique and ambitious interdisciplinary attempt at the integration of these related fields, and offers a timely theoretical synthesis of the most important global constitutional trends in the last half-century. These essays by prominent authorities on different subjects and geographical areas offer a comprehensive, comparative view of the most important constitutional developments of two eras, bringing together the transplantation of the constitutional pattern of the nation-state and the current wave of globalization of constitutionalism and the rule of law.

Contents:

Constitutional development and political reconstruction from nation-building to new constitutionalism / Saïd Amir Arjomand

Nation-building, modernization and post-colonial reconstruction

Regimes reinventing themselves: constitutional development in the Arab world / Nathan Brown

Constitutions and political reconstruction? Israel's quest for a constitution / Ruth Gavison

A globalizing constitutionalism? Views from the postcolony, 1945-2000 / Julian Go

The rule of law and politics of reform in post-revolutionary Iran / Keyvan Tabari

Post-colonial collages: distributions of power and constitutional models, with special reference to South Africa / Heinz Klug

Constitutional engineering and impact: the case of Fiji / Jill Cottrell and Yash Ghai

Constitutional reconstruction since the fall of communism

Parliament and the political class in the constitutional reconstruction of Poland: two constitutions in one / Jacek Kurczewski

Constitutionalism and the presidency in the Russian Federation / Anders Fogelklou

Institutional innovations and moral foundations of constitutionalism in East Central Europe: coping with the past human rights violations / Grażyna Ska̜pska

The constitution in the process of denationalization / Dieter Grimm

Constitutional courts and the new constitutionalism

The role of constitutional courts in the transition to democracy, with special reference to Hungary / László Sólyom

Constitutional negotiations: political contexts of judicial activism in post-Soviet Europe / Kim Lane Scheppele

Women and the cost of transition to democratic constitutionalism in Spain / Ruth Rubio-Marín

Dissolution of political parties by the constitutional court in Turkey: judicial delimitation of the political domain / Dicle Kogacioglu

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9789004151741

9004151745

OCLC:

153579315