Engineering constitutional change : a comparative perspective on Europe, Canada and the USA / / edited by Xenophon Contiades.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kontiades, Xenophon I.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in constitutional law
• Physical Description: viii, 478 p.

Table of Contents

Constitutional change engineering -- Constitutional change in Austria -- The process of constitutional amendment in Belgium -- Constitutional change, and constitutional amendment : a Canadian conundrum -- Formal and informal methods of constitutional change in Denmark -- Constitutional amendment in Finland -- Constitutional amendment in France -- Constitutional amendments, and constitutional changes in Germany -- Constitutional change in Greece -- Constitutional amendment in Ireland -- Constitutional revision in Italy : a marginal instrument for constitutional change -- Constitutional amendment in Luxembourg -- The constitutional revision process in the Netherlands : sensible security valve or cause of constitutional paralysis? -- The Portuguese Constitution of 1976 : half-life and decay -- Constitutional change in Spain -- Constitutional amendment in Sweden -- Constitutional revision : the case of Switzerland -- Constitutional amendment in the United Kingdom -- Constitutional revision in the United States of America -- Models of constitutional change.