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Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond- Front Cover
Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Constitutional challenges, reform,
and acceleration
1. Motivations for, and triggers of, constitutional reform
2. Constitutional acceleration
3. Modes of constitution-making and constitutional reform
4. Constitutional ‘mindsets’
5. Overview of the volume
Notes
PART I:
Reflections on constitutional change in times
of acceleration
Chapter 1: Towards participatory constitutionalism?
Comparative European lessons
1. The crisis of decision-making and the challenge of participation
2. Bicycles and dams: Participation and the lack of a constitutional theory
3. Some cases of (somewhat) participatory constitutional processes
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
Chapter 2: (Not) fast and (not) furious? (Un)constitutional
responsiveness and the boundaries of
constituent imagination
1. Beyond the liberal-democratic and radical-democratic conjurations of peoplehood
2. Figurations of peoplehood: Two sovereign deciders and one community of equals
3. From Athens to Flint: Morphologies of disrespect beyond ‘the people’
4. Responsiveness beyond ‘the people’: Culturalist, non-democratic, historic, peripheral
5. Chatterjee and Pettit go to Flint: At the limits of constituent imagination
6. For love of the purpose: Acceleration, responsiveness, and the anxieties of peoplehood
Notes
Chapter 3: The multifaceted sovereign: Domestic and
international actors in constitutional regime change
1. Types of constitutional regime change
2. The power of procedural legitimacy
3. Domestic actors
4. International actors
Concluding remarks
Notes
PART II:
Constitutional reforms in ‘established’ democracies
Chapter 4: Participatory constitution-making and the renovation
of the UK constitution
Introduction
Calls for a UK constitutional convention
Challenges to the promise of constitutional conventions
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 5: Constitutional paradigms: The Italian 1948 Constitution between conservation and reform
Constitutional instrumentalism
Constitutional resistance
Concluding remarks
Notes
Chapter 6: Ireland’s evolving constitution
Introduction
Constitutional context and key actors
The 2012–14 Constitutional Convention
2011–15: A patchwork of referendums
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 7: The constitution as a political tool in Iceland: From the periphery to the center of the political debate
The Icelandic constitutional revision
A continuous constitutional saga
Conclusions
Notes
PART III:
Constitution-making, constitutional reform, and
deadlock in ‘new’ democracies
Chapter 8: Constitutional revision in Romania: Post-accession
pluralism in action
1. Introduction: The dynamics of constitutional revision by stealth
2. The avatars of post-communist constitution-making
3. The elements of informal change
4. Conclusion: Post-accession pluralism in action
Notes
Chapter 9: Changing constitutional identity via amendment
Introduction
Constitution and constitutionalism
Total replacement versus amendment
Different concepts of the constitution
Constitutional identity
Constitutional courts as guardians of constitutional identity
The standard of evaluation
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 10: The rise and fall of constitutionalism in Hungary
Revolutionary/non-revolutionary vs. sovereign/ post-sovereign constitution-making
Explanations of Hungary’s backsliding to an illiberal state
The present and future of liberal democracy in Hungary
Notes
Index