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 scholarship...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ackerman, Bruce A.
Format: Printed Book
Published: London, Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Constitutional law.
Constitutions.
Populism.
Personality and politics.
Revolutions.
Charisma (Personality trait)
Political leadership.
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 i\Israel
  • Constitutionalizing charisma in Iran
  • American exceptionalism?.

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