Constitutionalism, Legitimacy, and Power - Nineteenth-Century Experiences

Informationen zum Autor Kelly L Grotke received her PhD in European history from Cornell University in 2006, where she focused on eighteenth-century German intellectual history and the development of natural law theory. She is affiliated with the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki, where she was also a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Project Europe 1815-1914 between 2009-2013. She is currently completing a manuscript on the decline of natural law and the rise of logic in the nineteenth century.; Markus J Prutsch holds degrees in History and Political Science. He received his PhD from the European University Institute Florence, specializing in political history and theory with main focus on post-Napoleonic constitutional transfer processes. Fellow at the University of Helsinki between 2009 and 2012, funded by the European Research Council and working on the phenomenon of 'Modern Caesarism', he is now senior investigator and research administrator at the European Parliament. Klappentext Critically analysing nineteenth-century constitutions in tandem with the political and social circumstances of their creation, enactment, and stated objectives, this book explicitly counters any simplistic narratives asserting that constitutions offer a straightforward, law-based path to increasing democracy, equality and liberty. Zusammenfassung Critically analysing nineteenth-century constitutions in tandem with the political and social circumstances of their creation, enactment, and stated objectives, this book explicitly counters any simplistic narratives asserting that constitutions offer a straightforward, law-based path to increasing democracy, equality and liberty.

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• Authors: Kelly L. Prutsch Grotke
• Assisted by: Kelly L Grotke (Editor), Kelly L. Grotke (Editor), Markus J Prutsch (Editor), Markus J. Prutsch (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2014
• EAN: 9780198723059
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872305-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Legal History, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general