Authoritarian Constitutionalism：Comparative Analysis and Critique

Thecontributionstothisbookanalyseandsubmittocritiqueauthoritarianconstitutionalismasanimportantphenomenoninitsownright,notmerelyasadeviantofliberalconstitutionalism.Accordingly,thefourteenstudiescoveravarietyofauthoritarianregimesfromHungarytoApartheidSouthAfrica,fromChinatoVenezuela;fromSyriatoArgentina,anddiscusstherenaissanceofauthoritarianagendasandmovements,suchaspopulism,Trumpism,nationalismandxenophobia.Fromdifferenttheoreticalperspectivestheauthorselucidatehowauthoritarianpowerisconstituted,exercisedandtransferredinthedifferentconfigurationsofpopularparticipation,economicimperatives,andimaginarycommunity.AuthoritarianConstitutionalismisofgreatinteresttoteachers,scholarsandstudentsofcomparativeconstitutionallaw,comparativepolitics,andlegalandpoliticaltheory.