Comparative constitutional studies: between magic and deceit /
Frankenberg, Gunter
Comparative constitutional studies: between magic and deceit /
- Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar 2018
- xi, 343 p. 22 cm
- Elgar monographs in constitutional and administrative law .
Preface; 1 Constitutions: between magic and deceit; 1. Conflicts and projects; 2. Narratives of magic and deceit; 3. Constitutional rhetoric; PART I THEORY AND METHOD: 2 Constitutional idiom and design: 1. The modern idiom of constitutions; 2. Conceptual histories; 3. Constitutional imaginary and silence; 4. Constitutional design: archetypes and architecture; 5. Written, unwritten, printed; 3 Comparing constitutions: theory and method 1. Similarity or difference?; 2. The politics of unitary comparison; 3. Constituting the other: normalization; 4. Constitutional ethnocentrism; 5. Comparison as narrative; 6. Varieties of constitutionalism: between magic and deceit; PART II HISTORY AND TRANSFER: 4 Constitutional transfer and experimentalism: 1. Comparing transfers; 2. De-contextualization; 3. Re-contextualization; 4. Defying transfer: resisting globalization; 5. Identifying "odd details'; 6. Constitutional items: local, regional, global; 7. Merchants of transfer; 5 Consitutional experimentalism in nineteenth-century Europe: 1. The long conversion of sovereignty; 2. Constitutionalism between teleology and contingence; 3. Constitutional experimentalism: the nineteenth century as laboratory; 4. Three models of constitutional monarchy; 5. Experiment and tenure; 6. Pathways and transfers of constitutional monarchy; 7. Plurality, agenda and sources of nineteenth-century constitutionalism; PART III CONSTITUTION AS ORDER: 6 Order from conflict: 1. Constitution as cognitive and normative ordering; 2. Ordering polity and society; 3. Constituting political authority; 4. Constituting social integration; 5. Integration through conflict; 6. Constitutional exclusion and inclusion; 7 Constituting against partition and fragmentation: 1. Deep division as fragmentation or partition; 2. Partition: constitutional geography and geopolitics; 3. Constituting against partition: narratives of unity and denial; 4. Constituting against social fragmentation; 5. Constituting cooperative disagreement: autonomy; 8 Constituting states of exception: 1. Demons and mysteries; 2. Terrains of exception: rule of decision; 3. A short phenomenology of states of exception; 4. Constituting states of exception; 5. Normalizing the exception Epilogue Bibliography; Index.