Revolutionary Constitutions - Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law

Offering insights into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism, Bruce Ackerman takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy.

About the author

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and the award-winning author of eighteen books, including Social Justice in the Liberal State and his multivolume constitutional history We the People. His book The Stakeholder Society (written with Anne Alstott) served as a basis for Tony Blair’s introduction of child investment accounts in the United Kingdom. He contributes frequently to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. Ackerman is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of the American Philosophical Society’s Henry M. Phillips Prize for lifetime achievement in jurisprudence.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Ackerman
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780674970687
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97068-7
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / Constitutional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Comparative Politics, Revolutionary groups & movements, Constitution: government & the state, Revolutionary groups and movements, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions