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Edited by Denis J. Galligan, University of Oxford, Mila Versteeg, University of Virginia

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2013
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781139507509
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139507509

Subjects:: Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Politics
Series:: Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy

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This volume analyses the social and political forces that influence constitutions and the process of constitution making. It combines theoretical perspectives on the social and political foundations of constitutions with a range of detailed case studies from nineteen countries. In the first part leading scholars analyse and develop a range of theoretical perspectives, including constitutions as coordination devices, mission statements, contracts, products of domestic power play, transnational documents, and as reflection of the will of the people. In the second part these theories are examined through in-depth case studies of the social and political foundations of constitutions in countries such as Egypt, Nigeria, Japan, Romania, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Israel, Argentina and others. The result is a multidimensional study of constitutions as social phenomena and their interaction with other social phenomena.

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Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions - Half title page
pp i-ii

Series page
pp iii-iv

Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-xvi

Contributors
pp xvii-xviii

Preface
pp xix-xx

Part I - Introduction
pp 1-48

1 - Theoretical Perspectives on the Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions
pp 3-48

Part II - Theoretical Perspectives
pp 49-204

2 - Why a Constitution?
pp 51-72

3 - Constitutions as Mission Statements
pp 73-102

4 - Transnational Constitutionalism
pp 103-133

5 - The People, the Constitution, and the Idea of Representation
pp 134-156

6 - The Strategic Foundations of Constitutions
pp 157-181

7 - Constitutions as Contract, Constitutions as Charters
pp 182-204

Part III - Case Studies
pp 205-660

8 - Accidental Constitutionalism
pp 207-238

9 - The Myth of the Imposed Constitution
pp 239-268

10 - Social, Political and Philosophical Foundations of the Irish Constitutional Order
pp 269-294

11 - South Sudan’s Dualistic Constitution
pp 295-321

12 - New Zealand: Abandoning Westminster?
pp 322-342

13 - The Juristic Republic of Iran
pp 343-365

14 - Neo-Bolivarian Constitutional Design
pp 366-397

15 - The Constitution as Agreement to Agree
pp 398-431

16 - Explaining the Constitutionalization of Social Rights
pp 432-468

17 - Popular Constitution-Making
pp 469-496

18 - Romania’s Transnational Constitution
pp 497-531

19 - The Social and Political Foundations of the Nigerian Constitution
pp 532-560

20 - The Once and Future Democracy
pp 561-583

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