Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367876661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Paul Blokker

Opis

The collection of essays addresses a range of critical challenges - including societal acceleration, depoliticization, civic engagement, multi-faceted constituent power, modernization, populism and nationalism, and transnationalization.

Spis treści

Part 1: Reflections on Constitutional Change in Times of Acceleration

1. Towards Participatory Constitutionalism? Comparative European Lessons

Francesco Palermo

2. (Not) Fast and (Not) Furious? (Un)constitutional responsiveness and the Boundaries of Constituent Imagination

Zoran Oklopcic

3. The Multifaceted Sovereign: Domestic and International Actors in Constitutional Regime Change

Andrew Arato and Gábor Attila Tóth

Part 2: Constitutional Reforms in ‘Established’ Democracies

4. Participatory Constitution-Making and the Renovation of the UK Constitution

Silvia Suteu

5. Constitutional Paradigms: The Italian 1948 Constitution between Conservation and Reform

Paul Blokker

6. Ireland’s Evolving Constitution

Jane Suiter, David M. Farrell, and Clodagh Harris

7. The Constitution as a Political Tool in Iceland: From the Periphery to the Center of the Political Debate

Baldvin Thor Bergsson

Part 3: Constitution-Making, Constitutional Reform, and Deadlock in ‘New’ Democracies

8. Constitutional Revision in Romania: Post-Accession Pluralism in Action

Bogdan Iancu

9. Changing Constitutional Identity via Amendment

Kriszta Kovács

10. The Rise and Fall of Constitutionalism in Hungary

Gábor Halmai

O autorze

Paul Blokker is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague. His publications include New Democracies in Crisis? A Comparative Constitutional Study of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, Routledge (2013); 'EU Democratic Oversight and Domestic Deviation from the Rule of Law: Sociological Reflections', in: C. Closa and D. Kochenov (eds), Reinforcing the Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union, CUP (2016); and, co-edited with Chris Thornhill, Sociological Constitutionalism, CUP (forthcoming, 2017).