Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law

Edited by Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard University, US and Dimitry Kochenov, Head of Rule of Law Research Group, CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, Hungary and Professor of Legal Studies, CEU Department of Legal Studies, Vienna, Austria

‘The richness of the material is dazzling indeed and the Research Handbook offers an innovative and critical approach to a range of key theoretical concepts and topics, whereby it also addresses practical implications.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law 1Mark Tushnet and Dimitry KochenovPART I FOUNDATIONS2 The ideal of the rule of law and private power 14Martin Krygier3 The politics of legal ideology 30Julie Novkov4 Constitutionalism and behavioural concepts 46Dariusz Adamski5 Emotions in constitutional law 70András Sajó6 Popular sovereignty, constitutional democracy and the mental construalof political representations 88Zoran Oklopčić7 Liminal rights: sovereignty, constitutions and borders 105Audrey Macklin8 Unrecognised entities: politics of constitutionalism at the fringes 128Aistė Mickonytė and Benedikt C. Harzl9 The politics of constitution making 143Mark Tushnet10 The constitutional politics of emergency powers 163Victor V. Ramraj11 Japan: a case against the amendment politics? 176Tokujin Matsudaira12 The politics of constitutional interpretation 199Tamas GyörfiPART II STRUCTURES13 The gradual creation of a Leviathan: Latin America’s mainconstitutional failure 215Roberto Gargarella14 Constitutional politics of federalism in Latin America 228Juan F. González Bertomeu15 The rise and protection of judicial independence 246Georg Vanberg, Benjamin Broman and Christopher Ritter16 Politics of judicial governance 262David Kosař and Katar’na Šipulová17 The politics of judicial dialogue 286David Law and Mark Tushnet18 Republicanism redefined: the constitutional status of political partiesafter the ratification of the twelfth amendment 310Franita Tolson19 Transatlantic ‘administrative constitutionalism’: New Deal models andsupranational governance in Europe Since the 1950s 329Peter L. Lindseth20 The politics of the constitutionalisation of corporate power in Europe 350Jacquelyn D. Veraldi and Matthew R. Hassall21 Advocates general and the court of justice: the early years 377Margot Horspool22 The neo-liberal bias of the EU constitutional order: a critical analysis 386Bojan Bugaric23 The politics of the constitutionalisation of international law: The UnitedNations sovereign (in)equality of states, good neighbourliness and use of force 410Elena BasheskaPART III RIGHTS24 The politics of constitutional rights 432Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg25 Pretext as a legal matter 453Mariam Begadze26 The constitutional politics of religion 467Ioanna Tourkochoriti27 The constitutional politics of merit 483Sarah Ganty28 Minorities: a view from South Asia 514Kamala Sankaran29 The politics of sexual identity and the emerging constitutional battles in Europe 533Alina Tryfonidou30 Abstract citizenship in the age of concrete human rights 551Dimitry KochenovPART IV FUTURES31 The cold war’s continuing power: US constitutional law and historical memory 572Aziz F. Rana32 The politics of constitutional memory: mnemonic constitutionalism,historical memory, and collective identity in Poland, Germany and Russia 593Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias33 Use, misuse and abuse of constitutional identity in Europe 612Petra Bárd, Nóra Chronowski and Zoltán Fleck34 Populist constitutional politics and civil society fundamentalism 635Paul Blokker35 Militant democracy: a friend or enemy of democratic backsliding? 659Violeta Beširević36 Hindu Zion: the politics of constitutional accommodation 675Suryapratim Roy and Rahul Sambaraju37 The politics of constitutional meltdown 696Paul Craig38 The paradox of evil law 711Anna LukinaIndex