书目名称 | The Politics of Constitutional Reform in North America | 副标题 | Coping with New Chal | 编辑 | Rainer-Olaf Schultze (Professor of Political Scien | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 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 | 出版日期 | Book 2000 | 关键词 | Exekutive; Föderalismus; Gender; Governance; Haushalt; Institution; Policy; Transformation; Verfassung; polit | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11628-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-663-11630-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-663-11628-8 | copyright | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2000 |
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