Authoritarian constitutionalism : comparative analysis and critique / edited by Helena Alviar García, Günter Frankenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alviar García, Helena, editor.

Frankenberg, Günter, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

The contributions to this book analyse and submit to critique authoritarian constitutionalism as an important phenomenon in its own right, not merely as a deviant of liberal constitutionalism. Accordingly, the fourteen studies cover a variety of authoritarian regimes from Hungary to Apartheid South Africa, from China to Venezuela; from Syria to Argentina, and discuss the renaissance of authoritarian agendas and movements, such as populism, Trumpism, nationalism and xenophobia. From different theoretical perspectives the authors elucidate how authoritarian power is constituted, exercised and transferred in the different configurations of popular participation, economic imperatives, and imaginary community. Authoritarian Constitutionalism is of great interest to teachers, scholars and students of comparative constitutional law, comparative politics, and legal and political theory.

Contents:

Contents: Preface / Günter Frankenberg, Norman Spaulding, Helena Alviar García

1. Authoritarian constitutionalism - coming to terms with modernity's nightmares / Günter Frankenberg

2. Neoliberalism as a form of authoritarian constitutionalism / Helena Alviar García

3. Authoritarian constitutionalism: the South African experience / Dennis M. Davis

4. Infrastructural power and its possibilities for the constitutional evolution of authoritarian political systems: lessons from China / Michael W. Dowdle

5. Authoritarian constitutionalism in the Islamic world-theoretical considerations and comparative observations on Syria and Turkey / Omar El Manfalouty

6. Authoritarian constitutionalism in Latin America: from past to present / Roberto Gargarella

7. Authoritarianism and the narrative power of constitutionalism in Venezuela / Jorge González-Jácome

8. Authoritarian constitutionalism in liberal democracies / Duncan Kennedy

9. French authoritarian constitutionalism and its legacy / Eugénie Mérieau

10. Plus ça change ... the riddle of all central asian constitutions / Scott Newton

11. Constitution of false prophecies: the illiberal transformation of Hungary / Maximilian Pichl

12. States of authoritarianism in liberal democratic regimes / Norman W. Spaulding

13. Arab constitutionalism and the formalism of authoritarian constitutionalism / Nimer Sultany

14. Authoritarian liberalism as authoritarian constitutionalism / Michael A. Wilkinson

15. An authoritization of Japanese constitutionalism? / Hajime Yamamoto

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-78811-785-9