Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law Ackerman Bruce
Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law Ackerman Bruce A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America's most renowned and controversial constitutional…
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Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law Ackerman Bruce
A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America's most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars--the award-winning author of We the People.Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds--or so its critics would have us believe. 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. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected this view.
Despite their many differences, populist 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.