Writing democracy
Subtitle: the Norwegian Constitution, 1814-2014
By: edited by Karen Gammelgaard and Eirik Holmøyvik
Series: Time and the world : interdisciplinary studies in cultural transformations
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781782385042; 9781782385059
Subjects: Constitutional history; Constitutional law; Interpretation and construction; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The thing that invented Norway / William B. Warner, Eirik Holmyvik, and Mona Ringvej; title: The changing meaning of "constitution" in Norwegian constitutional history / Eirik Holmøyvik; title: The many textual identities of constitutions / Dag Michalsen; title: The Norwegian constitution and the rhetoric of political poetry / Ulrich Schmid; title: Constitution as a transnational genre : Norway 1814 and the Habsburg Empire 1848-1849 / Karen Gammelgaard; title: Discursive patterns in the Italian and Norwegian constitutions / Jacqueline Visconti; title: Timing the constitutional moment : time and language in the Norwegian constitution / Helge Jordheim; title: The Norwegian constitution and its multiple codes : expressions of historical and political change / Inger-Johanne Sand; title: Norwegian parliamentary discourse 2004-2012 on the Norwegian constitution's language form / Yordanka Madzharova Bruteig; title: Article 100 and the evolution of a public opinion text culture in Denmark-Norway 1770-1799 / Kjell Lars Berge; title: To speak what the hour demands : framing the future of public speech at Eidsvold in 1814 / Mona Ringvej; title: Scholarly texts' influence on the 2004 revision of the Norwegian Constitution's Article 100 / Ragnvald Kalleberg.