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The Politics of Constitutional Reform in North America - Coping with New Challenges (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
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The Politics of Constitutional Reform in North America - Coping with New Challenges (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
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In October 1999, some fifteen academic experts and government
practitio ners from Germany and North America gathered for two days
at the Uni ver sity of Augsburg to discuss the topic of
"Constitutional Reform and Consti tutional Jurisprudence in Canada
and the United States." The present volume documents the results of
that conference, a collaborative effort of the De partment of
Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the
Institute for Canadian Studies, University of Augsburg. In
organizing this workshop, we were guided by two basic sets of ideas
and assumptions: First, all "established" democracies are regularly
confron ted with the need to adjust their constitutional order to
changes in their envi ronment lest democratic stability be
transformed into rigidity; in many wes tern nations, including
Canada and the United States, developments such as the crisis of
the Keynesian welfare-state or the emergence of increasingly
heterogeneous, postmodern societies have ushered in an era of
heightened, yet not always successful constitutional reform
activity. Secondly, however, there is no unique path towards, or
model of, an "optimal" constitutional order, however defined;
rather, constitutional reform processes, their under Iying
normative principles and their outcomes are strongly path and
context dependent. Therefore, the participants of the workshop and
authors of this volume were asked to examine the specific
preconditions, context, nature and impact of recent constitutional
reform processes in the Uni ted States and Canada."
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