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Title Constitutionalism and democracy : transitions in the contemporary world : the American Council of Learned Societies comparative constitutionalism papers / edited by Douglas Greenberg [and others]
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 391 pages)
Contents Transitions -- Constitutions, Constitutionalism, and Democracy / Walter F. Murphy -- Constitutionalism in Europe Since 1945: Reconstruction and Reappraisal / Nevil Johnson -- Transition to Democracy, Corporatism, and Presidentialism with Special Reference to Latin America / Carlos Santiago Nino -- Constitutions Without Constitutionalism: Reflections on an African Political Paradox / H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo -- Human Rights -- Human Rights in Constitutional Order and in Political Practice in Latin America / Hugo E. Fruhling -- The National Question, Secession and Constitutionalism: The Mediation of Competing Claims to Self-Determination / Abdullahi An-Na'im -- European Courts and Human Rights / Ludger Kuhnhardt -- Social Movements, Constitutionalism, and Human Rights: Comments from the Malaysian and Indonesian Experiences / Daniel S. Lev -- Pluralism and Nationalism -- Uses and Usurpation of Constitutional Ideology / Radhika Coomeraswamy -- Social Movements and Constitutionalism: The African Context / Mahmood Mamdani -- The Theory of the State in the Third World and the Problematics of Constitutionalism / Yash Ghai -- Constitutionalism and The Nationalist Discourse: The Indian Experience / Tapan Raychaudhuri -- Institutional Arrangements -- Reconstructing Political Space: Militarism and Constitutionalism in Africa / Eboe Hutchful -- Providing for the Common Defense: What Latin American Constitutions Have to Say About The Region's Armed Forces / Juan Rial
Analysis Democracy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Representative government and representation -- Congresses
Democracy -- Congresses
Constitutional history -- Congresses
Constitutional law -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
Constitutional history.
Constitutional law.
Democracy.
Representative government and representation.
Gouvernement représentatif -- Congrès.
Démocratie -- Congrès.
Droit constitutionnel -- Congrès.
Constitutionnalisme -- Congrès.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Greenberg, Douglas, editor.
ISBN 9780195361254
0195361253
9780195071078
0195071077