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Social difference and constitutionalism in Pan-Asia /
This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenges of social difference across Pan-Asia.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Comparative constitutional law and policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Halftitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Constitutions and Difference: Ideology and Institutions; The Contents and Organization of the Book; A Framework for Thinking about Constitutions and Difference; Ideology; Institutions; Material Resources; Decision-Making Power; Incentives; Conclusion; Part I Language; 1 Negotiating Differences: India's Language Policy; Pre-Independence Language Policy; The Constitutional Debates on Language; Debates over Linguistically Based Provinces; Revisiting the Role of English; The Constitution Today.
- 2 Constitution and Language in Post-Independence Central AsiaIntroduction; Language in Soviet and Independent Kazakhstan; Constitution and Language in the Late Soviet Era; Language, Constitutions, and Hyper-Presidentialism in Independent Kazakhstan; Kazakhstan Against the Background of the Baltic and South Caucasus Countries; Language and Constitution in Kazakhstan: A Central Asian Regional Perspective; Conclusion; Part II Urban/Rural; 3 Dreams of Redemption: Localist Strategies of Political Reform in the Philippines*; The Origins of Patronage-Based State Formation.
- The Impact of Patronage-Based State FormationLocalist Strategies in the Postindependence Philippines; A New Awakening? From Dreams of Redemption to Carefully Considered Strategies of Reform; 4 Constitutional Rights and Dialogic Process in Socialist Vietnam: Protecting Rural-to-Urban Migrants' Rights without a Constitutional Court; I. Theoretical Debates: Constitutionalism, Rights, and Democracy; A. Negative Rights, Positive Rights, and State Duties; B. The Role of Constitutional Rights in Dialogic Political Processes.
- II. Background Information: Vietnam, Market Economy, and Rural-to-Urban MigrationA. Household Registration System and the Implication for Migration and Migrant's Situation in the Cities; B. The 2006 Law on Residence Debate; C. The Law on Residence Discussion: How Constitutional Rights Were Central to the Debate; D. Debate on the Draft Capital Law: Rights Provisions as the Platform for Deliberation on the Proposals Regarding the Restriction of the Migration to the Capital; III. Reflection from the Vietnamese Experience; Conclusion; Part III Ethnicity and Race.
- 5 Asymmetrical Federalism in Burma*Introduction; Background to Burmese Federalism; What the Minorities Have in Common; How the Minorities Differ; The Asymmetrical Effects of Symmetrical Federalism; Asymmetrical Demands for a Federal System; How the Minorities Are Coming to Be More Alike; Conclusion; 6 Hu Wants Something New: Discourse and the Deep Structure of Minzu Policies in China; Introduction: Reconstituting Minzu?; Historical Background; Minzu Policies: The Constitutional Basis; Hu Yaobang's Liberal Experiment: Gestures toward More Substantive Autonomy.
- The Beginnings of Retrenchment: Questioning Autonomy.