Revolutionary constitutions : charismatic leadership and the rule of law /
"Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds--or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected this view. Now he draws on a quarter century of schol...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Pathways
- Part One. Constitutional revolutions: Constitutionalizing revolution?
- Movement-party constitutionalism: India
- Struggling for supremacy: South Africa
- From the French Resistance to the Fourth Republic
- Constitutional revolution in Italy
- A progress report?
- Part Two. Elaborations: De Gaulle's republic: the outsider returns
- Reconstructing the Fifth Republic
- Solidarity's triumph in Poland
- Solidarity's collapse: the perils of presidentialism
- The race against time: Burma and Israel
- Constitutionalizing charisma in Iran
- American exceptionalism?