This comprehensive study explores the historical evolution of India into the world’s largest democracy. Judith M. Brown analyzes the complex processes of change from the height of British imperial rule in the 19th century to the challenges of the late 20th century. The book examines how India's diverse social structures, nationalist movements, and colonial legacy interacted to shape its uniqu…
This study is executed from the above perspective. It focuses on the manifestations of the striving for a constitutional state in the debates of the Konstituante, as reported in the minutes, and on the obstacles which this endeavour encountered. The two fundamental elements of constitutionalism are legal limits to arbitrary power and a complete political responsibility of the government to the …
This book offers a critical insight into four decades of the Indian constitution. It charts the course of constitutional reform in India from the euphoric idealism of the post-independence period, through the crisis-ridden years of the emergency, and up to Rajiv Gandhi’s brief stay in power. Written with transparent affection towards the Indian people, Working a Democratic Constitution repres…
As the clock struck midnight on December 31, 1992, Czechoslovakia, the only genuine democracy in post-World War I Central-Eastern Europe, broke up into two independent successor states. This book explores the failed search for a postcommunist constitution and it records in a lively style a singular instance of the peaceful settlement of an ethnic dispute. For more than three years after the im…
Constitutional Politics is a systematic reflection on the future and immediate past of the constitutional politics of the Republic issue. It is both a historical analysis of the main elements of the constitutional debates of the 1990s, concentrating on the 1999 Republic Referendum and the events surrounding it, and a forward- looking analysis of the political prospects of constitutional and rep…