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Revolutionary constitutions : charismatic leadership and the rule of law / Bruce Ackerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackerman, Bruce, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law.
- Charisma (Personality trait)--Political aspects.
- Charisma (Personality trait).
- Revolutions.
- Populism.
- Political leadership.
- Constitutions.
- Personality and politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Offering insights into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism, Bruce Ackerman takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Pathways
- Part One: Constitutional Revolutions
- Chapter 1. Constitutionalizing Revolution?
- Chapter 2. Movement-Party Constitutionalism: India
- Chapter 3. Struggling for Supremacy: South Africa
- Chapter 4. From the French Resistance to the Fourth Republic
- Chapter 5. Constitutional Revolution in Italy
- Chapter 6. A Progress Report?
- Part Two: Elaborations
- Chapter 7. De Gaulle's Republic: The Outsider Returns
- Chapter 8. Reconstructing the Fifth Republic
- Chapter 9. Solidarity's Triumph in Poland
- Chapter 10. Solidarity's Collapse: The Perils of Presidentialism
- Chapter 11. The Race against Time: Burma and Israel
- Chapter 12. Constitutionalizing Charisma in Iran
- Chapter 13. American Exceptionalism?
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- "This is the first of several volumes that will explore three different pathways through which constitutions have won legitimacy over the past century."--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780674238848
- 0674238842
- 9780674238831
- 0674238834
- OCLC:
- 1091190686
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