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  title info:
    title: Democratic consolidation and constitutional endurance in Asia and Africa
    sub title: comparing uneven pathways
  name:
    name part: Daly, Tom Gerald
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Samararatne, Dinesha
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: A well-articulated response to the growing scholarly conversation on democratic backsliding and resilience, this essay collection considers recent democratising events in Ethiopia, The Gambia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
  table of contents: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Detailed Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1. Decolonising Comparative Constitutional Law (and Democratisation Studies)? -- 1. Introduction: A Distorted Conversation -- 2. This Book: Radically Re-orientating Our Centre -- 3. Comparative Methodology and Theory-Building -- 3.1 The Case Studies -- 3.2 A Different Model for Theoretical Development -- 3.3 Context, Collaboration, and Community-Building -- 4. Our Organising Concepts: Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance
  table of contents: 5. Three Key Features -- 5.1 Constitutional Change: Endurance and Decay as Cyclical -- 5.2 Critical Events and Crises -- 5.3 New Old Actors -- 6. Summary of the Book -- 6.1 Thematic Chapters -- 6.2 Case Studies -- 7. Concluding Reflections: Seeing Non-linear Constitutional Change through New Eyes -- Part I. Thematic Chapters -- 2. Public Offices in Processes of Constitutional Development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Search for an Organising Concept -- 3. Mapping Changes of Political, Legal, and Constitutional State -- 3.1 Constitutionalism and the Westphalian State
  table of contents: 3.2 Office, Status, and Role (in Western Modernity and Beyond) -- 4. Putting the Office Concept into Action -- 4.1 Modelling Competition between the State and Its Rivals -- 4.2 Towards a Minimum Normative Concept of 'Constitutionalism' -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. The Role of Governing Institutions in Attempted Reform Processes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Executive-Legislative Relations -- 2.1 Parliamentary Systems -- 2.2 Presidential Systems -- 2.3 Structure of Government in Comparison: Hybrid Systems -- 2.4 Role of the Armed Forces in Supporting or Hampering Policymaking
  table of contents: 3. The Role of Governing Institutions in Reform Processes -- 4. Factors Contributing to Failure (or a General Theory on the Causes for Failure) -- 5. Conclusion -- 4. Here, There, and Everywhere: Locating the Political Party in Democratic Transitions and Backslides -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Parties versus Systems: On the Design of This Chapter -- 3. The Party Regulated, the Party Regulating: Finances, Bans, Suppression -- 3.1 Party Suppression through Party Laws -- 3.2 Business Elites, Transnational Networks, and Party Financing -- 4. Populism, Leaders, and Military Regimes: The Party as a Front
  table of contents: 5. The Other Lives of Parties: Contextualising Parties as Organisational Entities -- 6. Coalitions, Dynasties, and Power Networks: Party and Party System Institutionalisation -- 6.1 The Impact of Party Systems and Institutionalisation -- 6.2 Dynasties and Loyalties: Parties as Vehicles for Unreliable Power Negotiations -- 7. Conclusion: Locating the Party as an Organisation -- 5. Constitutional Courts and the Exceptionality of Regime Change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Regime-Type Approach and Its Allure -- 3. Courts in Transitional Regimes? -- 4. The Exceptional Normative Role? -- 5. Conclusion
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Tom Gerald Daly, Dinesha Samararatne.
  note: This edition also issued in print: 2024.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Democratization
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional law
  subject:
    topic: Democratization
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Democratization
    geographic: Asia
  subject:
    topic: Démocratisation
  subject:
    topic: Démocratisation
    geographic: Afrique
  subject:
    topic: Démocratisation
    geographic: Asie
  subject:
    topic: LAW
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Political Ideologies
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Politics
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JC423 .D46 2024
  classification: 321.8
  identifier: 9780191983672
  identifier: 0191983675
  identifier: 9780192899361
  identifier: 0192899368
  identifier: 9780192899354
  identifier: 019289935X
  identifier: 9780192899347
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 240104
    record change date: 20260319204327.1
    record identifier: in00005726581
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng