Revolutionary Constitutions : : Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law / / Bruce Ackerman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Ackerman, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Pathways --; Part One: Constitutional Revolutions --; Chapter 1. Constitutionalizing Revolution? --; Chapter 2. Movement-Party Constitutionalism: India --; Chapter 3. Struggling for Supremacy: South Africa --; Chapter 4. From the French Resistance to the Fourth Republic --; Chapter 5. Constitutional Revolution in Italy --; Chapter 6. A Progress Report? --; Part Two: Elaborations --; Chapter 7. De Gaulle’s Republic: The Outsider Returns --; Chapter 8. Reconstructing the Fifth Republic --; Chapter 9. Solidarity’s Triumph in Poland --; Chapter 10. Solidarity’s Collapse: The Perils of Presidentialism --; Chapter 11. The Race against Time: Burma and Israel --; Chapter 12. Constitutionalizing Charisma in Iran --; Chapter 13. American Exceptionalism? --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674238831; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674238831
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bruce Ackerman.

Offering insights into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism, Bruce Ackerman takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy.