Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law - Bridging Idealism and Realism

Rule of law and constitutionalist ideals are understood by many, if not most, as necessary to create a just political order. Defying the traditional division between normative and positive theoretical approaches, this book explores how political reality on the one hand, and constitutional ideals on the other, mutually inform and influence each other. Seventeen chapters from leading international scholars cover a diverse range of topics and case studies to test the hypothesis that the best normative theories, including those regarding the role of constitutions, constitutionalism and the rule of law, conceive of the ideal and the real as mutually regulating.

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• Authors: Maurice Adams, Maurice (Universiteit Van Tilburg Adams, Ernst H. Ballin, Anne Meuwese
• Assisted by: Maurice Adams (Editor), Maurice (Universiteit Van Tilburg Adams (Editor), Adams Maurice (Editor), Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Editor), Ernst Hirsch (Universiteit van Tilburg Ballin (Editor), Ballin Ernst Hirsch (Editor), Anne Meuwese (Editor), Anne (Universiteit van Tilburg Meuwese (Editor), Meuwese Anne (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781316606278
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60627-8
• No. of pages: 558
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Constitutional, Systems of law, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Legal system: general, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Legal systems: general