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New constitutionalism in Latin America promises and practices

Title
New constitutionalism in Latin America [electronic resource] : promises and practices / edited by Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor.
ISBN
9781409434986 (hardback alk. paper)
9781409434993 (e-book)
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.
Physical Description
xxiv, 409 p. : ill.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 14, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / José 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 Martínez-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 Müller-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.
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