Reclaiming constitutionalism: democracy, power and the state
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 43
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, Hart
- ISBN
- 9781509916122
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The output presents a novel understanding of liberal constitutionalism, according to which liberal constitutions do not incorporate a demand for the rule of law as much as they constellate the outcomes of class struggle, as historically developed in a particular state. Based on this understanding, the output goes ahead with extended research on the possibility of constitutionalism beyond the state, in order to challenge widespread mainstream constitutional discourses on European and global constitutionalism . As such, the output challenges orthodox understandings while exposing the dialectic nature of liberal constitutions as hegemonic instruments and simultaneously instruments of emancipation.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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