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Constitutional Theocracy

By Ran Hirschl

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780674059375
DOI
10.4159/9780674059375
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1716465 bytes)
Pages
314\314
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 11:15:50

Description

In this ground-breaking book, renowned constitutional scholar Ran Hirschl describes “constitutional theocracy,” a new, hybrid form of government that has emerged from an overlapping of two parallel trends during the 20th century: the rise in political religion on the one hand and the spread of constitutional forms of government to most countries in the world on the other. Hirschl delivers two blockbuster theses: That in most constitutional theocracies, 1) courts are the primary secular agents of government, and 2) the electorate usually has a choice between a secular party that is against redistribution of wealth and a more theological party that supports redistribution. This last thesis, especially, will be news to many of the book’s American readers, who are accustomed to a theological politics stridently opposed to redistribution.

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