Political theorists tend to dismiss the concept of constitutional patriotism for two main reasons. On the one hand, constitutional patriotism — understood as a postnational, universalist form of democratic political allegiance — is rejected on account of its abstract quality. On the otherhand, it is argued that constitutional patriotism, while apprearing universalist, is in fact particular thro...

Beginning in 1999, a series of events generated speculation that the Chinese Party-state might be prepared to breathe new life into the country’s long dormant constitution. In recent years, as the Party-state has strictly limited constitutional adjudication and moved aggressively to contain some citizen constitutional activism, this early speculation has turned to pessimism about China’s consti...

Commonwealth Caribbean constitutions were famously likened by Francis Alexis to “birth certificates” – striking imagery that conveyed the paradigmatic shift occasioned at independence where written constitutions with entrenched Bills of Rights supposedly heralded the decline of parliamentary sovereignty. However, recent changes to Jamaica’s constitutional regime of fundamental rights, which ent...

This book is the second in a series of volumes on the Sociology of Constitutions. This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and international courts and by the domestic transformation of international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of institutional formation at key historical junctures in a number of n...

When the Second Circuit decided McKithen v. Brown, it joined an ever-growing list of courts faced with a difficult and pressing issue of both constitutional and criminal law: is there a federal constitutional right of post-conviction access to evidence for DNA testing? This issue, which sits at the intersection of new forensic technologies and fundamental principles of constitutional due proces...

The United States Constitution, as amended, is a complex legal document which sets out the structure of the federal government, the legal authorities of that government (and, to a lesser extent, state governments), and, finally, a series of legal disabilities on the exercise of those authorities (such as protections for individual rights). The document also addresses the complicated legal relat...

lack of public administration theory for islamic republic state in academic, administrative, policy and decision making fields are felt. why, it seems that between the state and public administration are common values. this paper seeks to investigate this issue. for this purpose, using comparative-historical analysis first, the historical relations and correspondence between state and public ad...

this article focuses on this problem: why and by what factors have rolled oral and written literature in social process for changing during the process of movement era? based on the analysis of narrative text and the sociology of literature methodology, survey results show that although historical theme has always been one of the topics discussed in the literature but the new iranian literature...

power of the muslim brotherhood after egypt’s revolution of 2011 and effective role in the approval of the constitution in 2012 ,led to be considered the idea of an islamic state by the various media and academic circles . this issue has necessitated need for research on this topic with a focus on the question: what is the idea of an islamic state in the muslim brotherhood's political thou...