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Ackerman, Bruce

Revolutionary Constitutions : Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law / Bruce Ackerman. - 1 online resource (432 p.)

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

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780674238831

Standard No.: 10.4159/9780674238831 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Charisma (Personality trait)--Political aspects.
Constitutional law.
Constitutions.
Personality and politics.
Political leadership.
Populism.
Revolutions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions.

LC Class. No.: K3165 / .A25 2019eb

Dewey Class. No.: 342.02