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03189cam a2200253 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674970687 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
342.02 |
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ACK.R |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ackerman, Bruce A., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Revolutionary constitutions : |
| Remainder of title |
charismatic leadership and the rule of law / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Bruce Ackerman. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London, |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
457 pages ; 25 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"This is the first of several volumes that will explore three different pathways through which constitutions have won legitimacy over the past century."--Introduction |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction: Pathways -- Part One. Constitutional revolutions: Constitutionalizing revolution? -- Movement-party constitutionalism: India -- Struggling for supremacy: South Africa -- From the French Resistance to the Fourth Republic -- Constitutional revolution in Italy -- A progress report? -- Part Two. Elaborations: De Gaulle's republic: the outsider returns -- Reconstructing the Fifth Republic -- Solidarity's triumph in Poland -- Solidarity's collapse: the perils of presidentialism -- The race against time: Burma and i\Israel -- Constitutionalizing charisma in Iran -- American exceptionalism?. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds--or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected this view. Now he draws on a quarter century of scholarship in this essential and surprising inquiry into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism around the world. He takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, and Iran and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy. Despite their many differences, populist leaders such as Nehru, Mandela, and de Gaulle encountered similar dilemmas at critical turning points, and each managed something overlooked but essential. Rather than deploy their charismatic leadership to retain power, they instead used it to confer legitimacy to the citizens and institutions of constitutional democracy. Ackerman returns to the United States in his last chapter to provide new insights into the Founders' acts of constitutional statesmanship as they met very similar challenges to those confronting populist leaders today. In the age of Trump, the democratic system of checks and balances will not survive unless ordinary citizens rally to its defense. Revolutionary Constitutions shows how activists can learn from their predecessors' successes and profit from their mistakes, and sets up the next volume in Ackerman's distinguished multivolume work, which will address how elites and insiders coopt and destroy the momentum of revolutionary movements.-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Constitutional law. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Constitutions. |
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Populism. |
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Personality and politics. |
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Revolutions. |
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Charisma (Personality trait) |
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Political leadership. |
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Book |
