Brown Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World

Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8968-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Middle Eastern Studies

Uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian political regimes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Nathan J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Introduction Part One The Purposes of Arab Constitutions Introduction: Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World 1. Early Constitutional Documents in the Middle East 2. Constitutions and Arab Monarchies 3. Republican Constitutions Conclusion to Part One: The Purposes of Arab Constitutions Part Two Constitutional Possibilities in the Arab World Introduction: Constitutions and Constitutionalism 4. Parliamentarism and Constitutional Possibilities in the Arab World 5. Judicial Review in Arab Constitutional Systems 6. Islamic Constitutionalism Conclusion: Lessons from the Arab Constitutional Experience Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf and Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt: The Struggle Against the State.