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A collection of essays examining the latest constitutional developments in sixteen East, Southeast and South Asian countries since the beginning of the twenty-first century. With comparative, historical and analytical perspectives on Asian constitutionalism, this will appeal to students and scholars interested in the origins or contemporary manifestations of constitutionalism in Asia.

This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.

This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.

This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenges of social difference such as religion or race and ethnicity. The book brings together lawyers, political scientists, historians, religious studies scholars, and area studies experts to consider how constitutions address issues of difference across Pan-Asia.

Maps the roles in governance that courts now undertake. Offering empirically rich accounts of dramatic judicial actions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, this book explores the political conditions and judicial strategies that have fostered those assertions of power, and evaluates when and how courts' assertions of new roles have been politically consequential.

Maps the roles in governance that courts now undertake. Offering empirically rich accounts of dramatic judicial actions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, this book explores the political conditions and judicial strategies that have fostered those assertions of power, and evaluates when and how courts' assertions of new roles have been politically consequential.

This volume brings together essays by leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from myriad disciplinary perspectives. The authors collectively assess what we know - and do not know - about the design process as well as particular institutional choices concerning executive power, constitutional amendment processes and many other issues.

This volume explores the social and political forces behind constitution making from a global perspective. It combines leading theoretical perspectives with in-depth case studies from nineteen countries. The result is an examination of constitutions as social phenomena and their interaction with other social phenomena, from various perspectives.

To mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, this book gathers top scholars from the UK and US to analyse its historic and contemporary influence. Using a political science framework and a global scope extending from the UK to the Americas and the Pacific, the authors puncture numerous enduring myths.

To mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, this book gathers top scholars from the UK and US to analyse its historic and contemporary influence. Using a political science framework and a global scope extending from the UK to the Americas and the Pacific, the authors puncture numerous enduring myths.