Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15174-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 871 g

Reihe: International Comparative Social Studies

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. Contributors are: S.A.Arjomand, Nathan J. Brown, Ruth Gavison, Julian Go, Keyvan Tabari, Heinz Klug, Jill Cottrell, Yash Ghai, László Sólyom, Jacek Kurczewski, Anders Fogelklou, Grayna SkÄ…pska, Dieter Grimm, Kim Lane Scheppele, Ruth Rubio Marín , and Dicle KogacioÄŸlu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arjomand, Saïd Amir

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Saïd Amir Arjomand (Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1980) is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the founder and President (1996-2002, 2005-08) of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. His books include The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam (Chicago, l984), and The Turban for the Crown (Oxford, 1988). He is currently a Carnegie Scholar working on the constitutional history of the Middle East.