Constitutional paradigms and the stability of states / by Noel Cox.

This book examines the influence of constitutional legal paradigms upon the political stability and viability of states. It contributes to the literature in the field by focussing on how constitutional flexibility may have led to the rise of 'successful' states and to the decline of '...

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Main Author: Cox, Noel, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • The rise and fall of states
  • The influence of constitutional paradigms
  • The hard and the soft constitution
  • The underlying theory
  • Authoritarianism
  • Doctrinaire liberalism
  • Empires and supra-national entities
  • Mixed models.