Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond

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Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond- Front Cover Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Constitutional challenges, reform, and acceleration 1. Motivations for, and triggers of, constitutional reform 2. Constitutional acceleration 3. Modes of constitution-making and constitutional reform 4. Constitutional ‘mindsets’ 5. Overview of the volume Notes PART I: Reflections on constitutional change in times of acceleration Chapter 1: Towards participatory constitutionalism? Comparative European lessons 1. The crisis of decision-making and the challenge of participation 2. Bicycles and dams: Participation and the lack of a constitutional theory 3. Some cases of (somewhat) participatory constitutional processes 4. Concluding remarks Notes Chapter 2: (Not) fast and (not) furious? (Un)constitutional responsiveness and the boundaries of constituent imagination 1. Beyond the liberal-democratic and radical-democratic conjurations of peoplehood 2. Figurations of peoplehood: Two sovereign deciders and one community of equals 3. From Athens to Flint: Morphologies of disrespect beyond ‘the people’ 4. Responsiveness beyond ‘the people’: Culturalist, non-democratic, historic, peripheral 5. Chatterjee and Pettit go to Flint: At the limits of constituent imagination 6. For love of the purpose: Acceleration, responsiveness, and the anxieties of peoplehood Notes Chapter 3: The multifaceted sovereign: Domestic and international actors in constitutional regime change 1. Types of constitutional regime change 2. The power of procedural legitimacy 3. Domestic actors 4. International actors Concluding remarks Notes PART II: Constitutional reforms in ‘established’ democracies Chapter 4: Participatory constitution-making and the renovation of the UK constitution Introduction Calls for a UK constitutional convention Challenges to the promise of constitutional conventions Conclusion Notes Chapter 5: Constitutional paradigms: The Italian 1948 Constitution between conservation and reform Constitutional instrumentalism Constitutional resistance Concluding remarks Notes Chapter 6: Ireland’s evolving constitution Introduction Constitutional context and key actors The 2012–14 Constitutional Convention 2011–15: A patchwork of referendums Conclusion Notes Chapter 7: The constitution as a political tool in Iceland: From the periphery to the center of the political debate The Icelandic constitutional revision A continuous constitutional saga Conclusions Notes PART III: Constitution-making, constitutional reform, and deadlock in ‘new’ democracies Chapter 8: Constitutional revision in Romania: Post-accession pluralism in action 1. Introduction: The dynamics of constitutional revision by stealth 2. The avatars of post-communist constitution-making 3. The elements of informal change 4. Conclusion: Post-accession pluralism in action Notes Chapter 9: Changing constitutional identity via amendment Introduction Constitution and constitutionalism Total replacement versus amendment Different concepts of the constitution Constitutional identity Constitutional courts as guardians of constitutional identity The standard of evaluation Conclusion Notes Chapter 10: The rise and fall of constitutionalism in Hungary Revolutionary/non-revolutionary vs. sovereign/ post-sovereign constitution-making Explanations of Hungary’s backsliding to an illiberal state The present and future of liberal democracy in Hungary Notes Index