Introduction: Pathways
Part One. Constitutional revolutions: Constitutionalizing revolution?
Movement-party constitutionalism: India
Struggling for supremacy: South Africa
From the French Resistance to the Fourth Republic
Constitutional revolution in Italy
A progress report?
Part Two. Elaborations: De Gaulle's republic: the outsider returns
Reconstructing the Fifth Republic
Solidarity's triumph in Poland
Solidarity's collapse: the perils of presidentialism
The race against time: Burma and i\Israel
Constitutionalizing charisma in Iran
American exceptionalism?.