Writing Democracy

The Norwegian Constitution 1814-2014
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-504-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

Reihe: Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations

The Norwegian Constitution is the oldest functioning constitution in Europe. Its bicentenary in 2014 has inspired the analyses in this volume, where contributors focus on the Constitution as a text to explore new ways of analyzing democratic development. This volume examines the framing of the Norwegian Constitution, its transformations, and its interpretations during the last two centuries. The textual focus enables new understandings of the framers’ negotiations and decisions on a democratic micro level and opens new international and historical contexts to understanding the Norwegian Constitution. By synthesizing knowledge from different realms - law, social sciences, and the humanities – Writing Democracy provides a model for examining the distinct textual qualities of constitutional documents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gammelgaard, Karen

Holmøyvik, Eirik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Verfassungsgeschichte, Verfassungsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Note on interdisciplinarity and stylistic conventions

Introduction: The Norwegian Constitution as a text

Karen Gammelgaard and Eirik Holmøyvik

PART I: EMBARKING ON THE MATTER

Chapter 1. The Thing that Invented Norway

William B. Warner, Eirik Holmøyvik, and Mona Ringvej

Chapter 2. The changing meaning of “constitution” in Norwegian constitutional history

Eirik Holmøyvik

Chapter 3. The many textual identities of constitutions

Dag Michalsen

PART II: TRANSNATIONAL CONVERSATIONS

Chapter 4. The Norwegian Constitution and the Rhetoric of Political Poetry

Ulrich Schmid

Chapter 5. Constitution as a Transnational Genre: Norway 1814 and the Habsburg Empire 1848–1849

Karen Gammelgaard

Chapter 6. Discursive patterns in the Italian and Norwegian Constitutions

Jacqueline Visconti

PART III: HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Chapter 7. Timing the Constitutional Moment: Time and Language in the Norwegian Constitution

Helge Jordheim

Chapter 8. The Norwegian Constitution and its multiple codes: Expressions of historical and political change

Inger-Johanne Sand

Chapter 9. Norwegian parliamentary discourse 2004–2012 on the Norwegian Constitution’s language form

Yordanka Madzharova Bruteig

PART IV: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Chapter 10. The evolution of a public opinion text culture in Denmark-Norway 1770–1799

Kjell Lars Berge

Chapter 11. To speak what the hour demands: Framing the future of public speech at Eidsvold in 1814

Mona Ringvej

Chapter 12. Scholarly texts’ influence on the 2004 revision of the Norwegian Constitution’s Article 100

Ragnvald Kalleberg

Appendixes

Appendix I: Constitution for Kongeriget Norge

Appendix II: The Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway

Bibliography

Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Gammelgaard, Karen
Karen Gammelgaard is a Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her publications focus on the interface between text and context and include Transforming National Holidays: Identity Discourse in the West and South Slavic Countries, 1985–2010 (co-editor, 2013) and Tekst og historie: Å lese tekster historisk (co-author, 2008).

Holmøyvik, Eirik
Eirik Holmøyvik is a Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has published numerous works on the Norwegian Constitution, including Maktfordeling og 1814 (2012) and Tolkingar av Grunnlova (2013). In 2012 he was a member of the committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament to modernize the Constitution’s language.

Karen Gammelgaard is a Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her publications focus on the interface between text and context and include Transforming National Holidays: Identity Discourse in the West and South Slavic Countries, 1985–2010 (co-editor, 2013) and Tekst og historie: Å lese tekster historisk (co-author, 2008).