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Sociological constitutionalism /

"This landmark book provides the first systematic overview of the key scholarly contributions in an emerging field of research on constitutionalism: the sociology of constitutions. It presents chapters offering very different normative and methodological approaches to constitutions, ranging fro...

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Main Author: Blokker,Paul,Ed
Other Authors: Blokker, Paul, Thornhill, C. J.
Format: Printed Book
Published: UK, CUP, 2017.
Edition:First paperback edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Sociological constitutionalism Paul Blokker and Chris Thornhill; Part I. National Constitutions and Sociological Method: 1. The social lives of constitutions Kim Lane Scheppele; 2. Towards a sociology of constitutional transformation - understanding South Africa's post-Apartheid constitutional order Heinz Klug; 3. Sociological constitutionalism - an evolutionary approach Hauke Brunkhorst; Part II. Constitutional Sociology Between the National and the Transnational: 4. Constitutionalism between nation states and global law Chris Thornhill; 5. Politics and the political in sociological constitutionalism Paul Blokker; 6. Constitutions as symbolic orders - the cultural analysis of constitutionalism Hans Vorlander; 7. The rule of the market: economic constitutionalism understood sociologically Sabine Frerichs; Part III. Constitutional Law and Transnational Society: 8. From constitutionalism to transconstitutionalism: beyond constitutional nationalism, cosmopolitan constitutional unity and fragmentary constitutional pluralism Marcelo Neves; 9. Societal constitutionalism: nine variations on a theme by David Sciulli Gunther Teubner.