New constitutionalism in Latin America promises and practices /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Nolte, Detlef.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10583439
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the times they are a changin : constitutional transformations in Latin America since the 1990s / Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
  • Explaining constitutional change : comparing the logic, advantages and shortcomings of static and dynamic approaches / Astrid Lorenz
  • Toward a theory of formal constitutional change : mechanisms of constitutional adaptation in Latin America
  • Gabriel negretto
  • Still the land of presidentialism? : executives and the Latin American constitution / Josβe Antonio Cheibub, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg
  • What do we mean when we talk about "critical constitutionalism"? : some reflections on the new Latin American constitutions / Albert Noguera
  • Latin American constitutionalism : historical development and distinctive traits / Laurence Whitehead
  • Latin American constitutionalism then and now : promises and questions / Roberto Gargarella
  • Neo-constitutionalism in twenty-first century Venezuela : participatory democracy, deconcentrated decentralization or centralized populism? / Rickard Lalander
  • New constitutions and the transformation of democracy in Bolivia and Ecuador / Jonas Wolff
  • Constitutionalizing policy : the Brazilian constitution of 1988 and its impact on governance / Rogerio Arantes and Claudio Couto
  • Change and continuity in Dominican constitutions : the 2010 reform compared / Leiv Marsteintredet
  • Chile : democratization through constitutional reforms / Claudio Fuentes
  • Institutional design and judicial behaviour : constitutional interpretation of criminal due process rights in Latin America / Julio Rios-Figueroa
  • Constitutional courts and constitutional change : analyzing the cases of presidential re-election in Latin America / Elena Martβinez-Barahona
  • Colombia's 1991 constitution : a rights revolution / Juan Fernando Jaramillo
  • How does new constitutionalism respond to the human rights challenges posed by transnational corporations? / Claudia Mθuller-Hoff
  • Plurinational constitutionalism : a new era of indigenous-state relations? / Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Rene Kuppe
  • Turning legal pluralism into state-sanctioned law : assessing the implications of the new constitutions and laws in Bolivia and Ecuador / Anna Barrera
  • The new Latin American constitutionalism : beyond liberal democracy? / Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor.