Constitutionalism and Its Discontents
208 pages | 1 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2026
Law and Legal Studies: The Constitution and the Courts
Political Science: Comparative Politics
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Discontents with Constitutionalism
Chapter 1. Framing the Problem
Chapter 2. Democracy Without Rules
Chapter 3. How Limiting Power in the Name of Liberty Can Expand Power
Chapter 4. Constitutions as Conversations Among Equals
Part II. Discontents with Programmatic Constitutionalism
Chapter 5. The European Union’s Economic Constitution
Chapter 6. Reconstructing the European Economic Constitution
Part III. Discontents with Democratic Decline
Chapter 7. Framing the Problem Again
Chapter 8. Until We Outnumber Them: Opposing Autocrats in Power
Chapter 9. The False Promise of Constitutional Design
Chapter 10. Preventing Democratic Decline: The Role of Political Parties
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index