Constitutionalism and political reconstruction
By: edited by Saïd Amir Arjomand.
Contributors: Arjomand, Said Amir.
Series: International comparative social studies -- v. 14
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789004151741
Subjects: Comparative government; Constitutional history; Rule of law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constitutional development and political reconstruction from nation-building to new constitutionalism / Saïd Amir Arjomand; title: Nation-building, modernization and post-colonial reconstruction; title: Regimes reinventing themselves: constitutional development in the Arab world / Nathan Brown; title: Constitutions and political reconstruction? Israel's quest for a constitution / Ruth Gavison; title: A globalizing constitutionalism? Views from the postcolony, 1945-2000 / Julian Go; title: The rule of law and politics of reform in post-revolutionary Iran / Keyvan Tabari; title: Post-colonial collages: distributions of power and constitutional models, with special reference to South Africa / Heinz Klug; title: Constitutional engineering and impact: the case of Fiji / Jill Cottrell and Yash Ghai; title: Constitutional reconstruction since the fall of communism; title: Parliament and the political class in the constitutional reconstruction of Poland: two constitutions in one / Jacek Kurczewski; title: Constitutionalism and the presidency in the Russian Federation / Anders Fogelklou; title: Institutional innovations and moral foundations of constitutionalism in East Central Europe: coping with the past human rights violations / Grażyna Ska̜pska; title: The constitution in the process of denationalization / Dieter Grimm; title: Constitutional courts and the new constitutionalism; title: The role of constitutional courts in the transition to democracy, with special reference to Hungary / László Sólyom; title: Constitutional negotiations: political contexts of judicial activism in post-Soviet Europe / Kim Lane Scheppele; title: Women and the cost of transition to democratic constitutionalism in Spain / Ruth Rubio-Marín; title: Dissolution of political parties by the constitutional court in Turkey: judicial delimitation of the political domain / Dicle Kogacioglu; title: List of contributors; title: Index.