| A Sociology of Constitutions: Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective Contributor(s): Thornhill, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511895062 ISBN-13: 9780511895067 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $156.75 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Constitutional - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306.2 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thornhill, Chris: - Chris Thornhill is Professor of European Political Thought and Head of Politics at the University of Glasgow, where his research focuses both on the relations between legal and political theory and legal and political sociology and on processes of state formation and constitution writing in different European societies. |