Western Constitutionalism History, Institutions, Comparative Law /

• Main Author: Buratti, Andrea (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; Constitutional law.; Political science.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .; Constitutional Law.; Political Science.

This innovative textbook provides an introduction into comparative constitutional law to undergraduate and graduate students. Combining a clear and practical explanation of the topics with scientific knowledge, the textbook analyzes the origins and the development of constitutional law in the Wester...

Table of Contents:

• The forge of constitutionalism: rediscovering the heritage of resistance against political power
• Achievements: constitutionalism in the age of the modern revolutions
• The different paths of western constitutional law in the 19th century
• Constitutionalism in the age of democratization
• Analyzing the pattern of constitutional democracy: the Anglo-American experience
• Analyzing the pattern of constitutional democracy: the European experience
• From the open constitutional state to the European constitutional space
• The worldwide expansion of constitutional democracy.