Chris Thornhill

A Sociology of Constitutions

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Produktbeschreibung

Chris Thornhill examines the legitimating role of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents in medieval Europe to recent constitutional transitions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 751g
• ISBN-13: 9781107610569
• ISBN-10: 1107610567
• Artikelnr.: 37293328

Autorenporträt

Chris Thornhill is Professor of European Political Thought and Head of Politics at the University of Glasgow, where his research focuses both on the relations between legal and political theory and legal and political sociology and on processes of state formation and constitution writing in different European societies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Medieval constitutions
2. Constitutions and early modernity
3. States, rights and the revolutionary form of power
4. Constitutions from Empire to Fascism
5. Constitutions and democratic transitions.