TY - BOOK AU - Arjomand,Said Amir TI - Constitutionalism and political reconstruction SN - 9789004151741 AV - JF51 C743 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Comparative government KW - Constitutional history KW - Rule of law N1 - Constitutional development and political reconstruction from nation-building to new constitutionalism / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- Nation-building, modernization and post-colonial reconstruction -- Regimes reinventing themselves: constitutional development in the Arab world / Nathan Brown -- Constitutions and political reconstruction? Israel's quest for a constitution / Ruth Gavison -- A globalizing constitutionalism? Views from the postcolony, 1945-2000 / Julian Go -- The rule of law and politics of reform in post-revolutionary Iran / Keyvan Tabari -- Post-colonial collages: distributions of power and constitutional models, with special reference to South Africa / Heinz Klug -- Constitutional engineering and impact: the case of Fiji / Jill Cottrell and Yash Ghai -- Constitutional reconstruction since the fall of communism -- Parliament and the political class in the constitutional reconstruction of Poland: two constitutions in one / Jacek Kurczewski -- Constitutionalism and the presidency in the Russian Federation / Anders Fogelklou -- Institutional innovations and moral foundations of constitutionalism in East Central Europe: coping with the past human rights violations / Grażyna Ska̜pska -- The constitution in the process of denationalization / Dieter Grimm -- Constitutional courts and the new constitutionalism -- The role of constitutional courts in the transition to democracy, with special reference to Hungary / László Sólyom -- Constitutional negotiations: political contexts of judicial activism in post-Soviet Europe / Kim Lane Scheppele -- Women and the cost of transition to democratic constitutionalism in Spain / Ruth Rubio-Marín -- Dissolution of political parties by the constitutional court in Turkey: judicial delimitation of the political domain / Dicle Kogacioglu -- List of contributors -- Index; HKBU library; YT2025 M09 ER -