From parchment to practice : implementing new constitutions

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Label

From parchment to practice : implementing new constitutions

Title remainder

implementing new constitutions

Statement of responsibility

edited by Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq

Creator

• From Parchment to Practice: Implementing New Constitutions (Conference), 2017

Contributor

• Ginsburg, Tom
• Huq, Aziz Z.

Editor

• Ginsburg, Tom
• Huq, Aziz Z.

Subject

• New democracies -- Congresses
• Constitutional law -- Congresses

Genre

• Congresses

Language

eng

Summary

From Parchment to Practice explores the set of problems that arise when a new constitution has been adopted. All new constitutions must manage a balance or tension between two forces: aspirations for social and political transformation on the one hand and demands for preservation of old interests and institutions on the other. The period following the initial adoption of a new constitution, is the conceptual, temporal, and institutional bridge between the past and future. It is the moment when the transformative and the preservative forces in constitutional design can come into the sharpest conflict. Through a series of case studies, this volume analyzes the variable nature of these type of conflicts - and the diverse means through which they are mediated, whether successfully or not

Member of

• Comparative constitutional law and policy

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
• Comparative constitutional law and policy