Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change

Xenophon Contiades is Professor of Public Law, Panteion University and President of the Centre for European Constitutional Law, Athens, Greece.Alkmene Fotiadou is a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Constitutional Law, Athens, Greece.

• 1 Introduction. Comparative constitutional change: a new academic field Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene FotiadouPART I The study of comparative constitutional change: theoretical and methodological aspects2 Comparative methodology and constitutional changeJaakko Husa3 Order from chaos? Typologies and models of constitutional changeOran Doyle4 Constitutional enduranceTom Ginsburg5 Constitutional amendment versus constitutional replacement: an empirical comparisonDavid S. Law and Ryan Whalen6 Varieties of liberal constitutionalismMark TushnetPART II Formal constitutional change7 Formal amendment rules: functions and designRichard Albert8 Constitutional design through amendment Manfred Stelzer9 The uses and abuses of constitutional unamendabilityYaniv Roznai10 Federalism and constitutional changeNathalie Behnke and Arthur Benz11 Participatory constitutional change: constitutional referendumsEoin CarolanPART III Informal constitutional change12 Political practice and constitutional changeDavid Feldman13 Judge-made constitutional changeJoel I. Colón-Ríos14 Global values, international organizations and constitutional changeHelle Krunke15 Crises, emergencies and constitutional changeGiacomo Delledonne16 The material study of constitutional change Marco Goldoni and Tarik OlcayPART IV Contemporary challenges in the theory and practice of comparative constitutional change 17 Constituent power and European constitutionalismChris Thornhill18 Populism and constitutional changePaul Blokker19 The democratic backsliding in the European Union and the challenge of constitutional designTomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz20 Constitution and self-determinationZoran Oklopcic21 Gender in comparative constitutional changeSilvia SuteuPART V Case studies: distinct profiles of constitutional change22 The future of UK constitutional lawRobert Blackburn23 Constitutional change in Australia: the paradox of the frozen continentElisa Arcioni and Adrienne Stone24 Preservationist constitutional change in Latin America: the cases of Chile and BrazilJuliano Zaiden Benvindo25 Informal constitutional change in unlikely places: the case of South AfricaJames Fowkes26 Constitutional changes in JapanYasuo Hasebe