Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Contiades, Xenophon
Other Authors: Fotiadou, Alkmene
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781351020961
135102096X
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction. Comparative constitutional change: a new academic field
  • PART I: The study of comparative constitutional change: theoretical and methodological aspects
  • 2. Comparative methodology and constitutional change
  • 3. Order from chaos? Typologies and models of constitutional change
  • 4. Constitutional endurance
  • 5. Constitutional amendment versus constitutional replacement: an empirical comparison
  • 6. Varieties of liberal constitutionalism
  • PART II: Formal constitutional change
  • 7. Formal amendment rules: functions and design
  • 8. Constitutional design through amendment
  • 9. The uses and abuses of constitutional unamendability
  • 10. Federalism and constitutional change
  • 11. Participatory constitutional change: constitutional referendums
  • PART III: Informal constitutional change
  • 12. Political practice and constitutional change
  • 13. Judge-made constitutional change
  • 14. Global values, international organizations and constitutional change
  • 15. Crises, emergencies and constitutional change
  • 16. The material study of constitutional change
  • PART IV: Contemporary challenges in the theory and practice of comparative constitutional change
  • 17. Constituent power and European constitutionalism
  • 18. Populism and constitutional change
  • 19. The democratic backsliding in the European Union and the challenge of constitutional design
  • 20. Constitution and self-determination
  • 21. Gender in comparative constitutional change
  • PART V: Case studies: distinct profiles of constitutional change
  • 22. The future of UK constitutional law
  • 23. Constitutional change in Australia: the paradox of the frozen continent
  • 24. Preservationist constitutional change in Latin America: the cases of Chile and Brazil
  • 25. Informal constitutional change in unlikely places: the case of South Africa
  • 26. Constitutional changes in Japan
  • Index