New constitutionalism in Latin America
Subtitle: promises and practices
By: by Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9781409434986; 9781409434993
Subjects: Constitutional law
Description: "Latin America has a long tradition of constitutional reform. Since the democratic transitions of the 1980s, most countries have amended their constitutions at least once, and some have even undergone constitutional reform several times. The global phenomenon of a new constitutionalism, with its enhanced rights provisions, finds expression in the region, but some new constitutions such as those of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, also have some peculiar characteristics which are discussed in this important book. Authors from a number of different disciplines offer a general overview of constitutional reforms in Latin America since 1990. They explore the historical, philosophical and doctrinal differences between traditional and new constitutionalism in Latin America and examine sources of inspiration. The book also covers sociopolitical settings, which factors and actors are relevant for the reform processes, and analyses the constitutional practices after reform, including the question of whether the recent constitutional reforms created new post-liberal democracies with an enhanced human and social rights record, or whether they primarily serve the ambitions of new political leaders"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the times they are a changin : constitutional transformations in Latin America since the 1990s / Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor; title: Explaining constitutional change : comparing the logic, advantages and shortcomings of static and dynamic approaches / Astrid Lorenz; title: Toward a theory of formal constitutional change : mechanisms of constitutional adaptation in Latin America; title: Gabriel negretto; title: Still the land of presidentialism? : executives and the Latin American constitution / José Antonio Cheibub, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg; title: What do we mean when we talk about "critical constitutionalism"? : some reflections on the new Latin American constitutions / Albert Noguera; title: Latin American constitutionalism : historical development and distinctive traits / Laurence Whitehead; title: Latin American constitutionalism then and now : promises and questions / Roberto Gargarella; title: Neo-constitutionalism in twenty-first century Venezuela : participatory democracy, deconcentrated decentralization or centralized populism? / Rickard Lalander; title: New constitutions and the transformation of democracy in Bolivia and Ecuador / Jonas Wolff; title: Constitutionalizing policy : the Brazilian constitution of 1988 and its impact on governance / Rogerio Arantes and Claudio Couto; title: Change and continuity in Dominican constitutions : the 2010 reform compared / Leiv Marsteintredet; title: Chile : democratization through constitutional reforms / Claudio Fuentes; title: Institutional design and judicial behaviour : constitutional interpretation of criminal due process rights in Latin America / Julio Rios-Figueroa; title: Constitutional courts and constitutional change : analyzing the cases of presidential re-election in Latin America / Elena Martínez-Barahona; title: Colombia's 1991 constitution : a rights revolution / Juan Fernando Jaramillo; title: How does new constitutionalism respond to the human rights challenges posed by transnational corporations?  / Claudia Müller-Hoff; title: Plurinational constitutionalism : a new era of indigenous-state relations? / Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Rene Kuppe; title: Turning legal pluralism into state-sanctioned law : assessing the implications of the new constitutions and laws in Bolivia and Ecuador / Anna Barrera; title: The new Latin American constitutionalism : beyond liberal democracy? / Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor.