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100	1		_aAckerman, Bruce A., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRevolutionary constitutions : _bcharismatic leadership and the rule of law / _cBruce Ackerman.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2019.
300			_a457 pages ; 25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is the first of several volumes that will explore three different pathways through which constitutions have won legitimacy over the past century."--Introduction
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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?.
520			_aPopulism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds--or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected this view. Now he draws on a quarter century of scholarship in this essential and surprising inquiry into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism around the world. He takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, and Iran and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy. Despite their many differences, populist leaders such as Nehru, Mandela, and de Gaulle encountered similar dilemmas at critical turning points, and each managed something overlooked but essential. Rather than deploy their charismatic leadership to retain power, they instead used it to confer legitimacy to the citizens and institutions of constitutional democracy. Ackerman returns to the United States in his last chapter to provide new insights into the Founders' acts of constitutional statesmanship as they met very similar challenges to those confronting populist leaders today. In the age of Trump, the democratic system of checks and balances will not survive unless ordinary citizens rally to its defense. Revolutionary Constitutions shows how activists can learn from their predecessors' successes and profit from their mistakes, and sets up the next volume in Ackerman's distinguished multivolume work, which will address how elites and insiders coopt and destroy the momentum of revolutionary movements.-- _cProvided by publisher
650		0	_aConstitutional law.
650		0	_aConstitutions.
650		0	_aPopulism.
650		0	_aPersonality and politics.
650		0	_aRevolutions.
650		0	_aCharisma (Personality trait) _xPolitical aspects.
650		0	_aPolitical leadership.
653			_aFellow
653			_aDaimler Fellow
653			_aClass of Spring 2015
653			_aWritten at the Academy
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