1st Edition
Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond
Part 1: Reflections on Constitutional Change in Times of Acceleration
1. Towards Participatory Constitutionalism? Comparative European Lessons
Francesco Palermo
2. (Not) Fast and (Not) Furious? (Un)constitutional responsiveness and the Boundaries of Constituent Imagination
Zoran Oklopcic
3. The Multifaceted Sovereign: Domestic and International Actors in Constitutional Regime Change
Andrew Arato and Gábor Attila Tóth
Part 2: Constitutional Reforms in ‘Established’ Democracies
4. Participatory Constitution-Making and the Renovation of the UK Constitution
Silvia Suteu
5. Constitutional Paradigms: The Italian 1948 Constitution between Conservation and Reform
Paul Blokker
6. Ireland’s Evolving Constitution
Jane Suiter, David M. Farrell, and Clodagh Harris
7. The Constitution as a Political Tool in Iceland: From the Periphery to the Center of the Political Debate
Baldvin Thor Bergsson
Part 3: Constitution-Making, Constitutional Reform, and Deadlock in ‘New’ Democracies
8. Constitutional Revision in Romania: Post-Accession Pluralism in Action
Bogdan Iancu
9. Changing Constitutional Identity via Amendment
Kriszta Kovács
10. The Rise and Fall of Constitutionalism in Hungary
Gábor Halmai
Biography
Paul Blokker is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague. His publications include New Democracies in Crisis? A Comparative Constitutional Study of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, Routledge (2013); 'EU Democratic Oversight and Domestic Deviation from the Rule of Law: Sociological Reflections', in: C. Closa and D. Kochenov (eds), Reinforcing the Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union, CUP (2016); and, co-edited with Chris Thornhill, Sociological Constitutionalism, CUP (forthcoming, 2017).
