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Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique

Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique

Author: Helena Alviar Garcia; Gunter Frankenberg
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781788117845
Published In: May 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The contributions to this book analyse and submit to critique authoritarian constitutionalism as an important phenomenon in its own right, not merely as a deviant of liberal constitutionalism.

Accordingly, the fourteen studies cover a variety of authoritarian regimes from Hungary to Apartheid South Africa, from China to Venezuela; from Syria to Argentina, and discuss the renaissance of authoritarian agendas and movements, such as populism, Trumpism, nationalism and xenophobia. From different theoretical perspectives the authors elucidate how authoritarian power is constituted, exercised and transferred in the different configurations of popular participation, economic imperatives, and imaginary community.

Authoritarian Constitutionalism is of great interest to teachers, scholars and students of comparative constitutional law, comparative politics, and legal and political theory.

Preface

Günter Frankenberg, Norman Spaulding, Helena Alviar García

1. Authoritarian Constitutionalism – Coming to terms with modernity’s nightmares

Günter Frankenberg

2. Neoliberalism as a form of Authoritarian Constitutionalism

Helena Alviar García

3. Authoritarian Constitutionalism: The South African Experience

Dennis M. Davis

4. Infrastructural Power and its Possibilities for the Constitutional Evolution of Authoritarian Political Systems: Lessons from China

Michael W. Dowdle

5. Authoritarian Constitutionalism in the Islamic World-Theoretical Considerations and Comparative Observations on Syria and Turkey

Omar El Manfalouty