Borrowing constitutional designs: constitutional law in weimar germany and the french fifth republic
Auteur :
Skach, Cindy
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691146720
Date de publication :
10 janv. 2010
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
227 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. The constitutional model they chose was neither the parliamentary model found in most of Western Europe at the time, nor the presidential model of the Americas. This title questions the hasty adoption of semi-presidentialism by these democracies.