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Revolutionary Constitutions : Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law / Bruce Ackerman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674238831
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.02 23
LOC classification:
  • K3165 .A25 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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.

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