Dimensions of Constitutional Democracy India and Germany
This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies. It focuses in particular on the experiences of India and Germany as examples of post-war and post-colonial constitutional democracies
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Dimensions of Constitutional Democracy India and Germany
Dimensions of Constitutional Democracy
Anupama Roy Michael Becker •
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Dimensions of Constitutional Democracy India and Germany
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Editors Anupama Roy Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
Michael Becker Institute of Political Science and Sociology University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany
ISBN 978-981-15-3898-8 ISBN 978-981-15-3899-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3899-5
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Preface and Acknowledgement
This volume is an outcome of two conferences organised in the JuliusMaximilians-University of Würzburg on 7th and 8th December 2017 and in Jawaharlal Nehru University on 15th and 16th March 2018. The conference in Würzburg focused on key conceptual categories that provide the analytical frameworks for making comparisons among contemporary democracies. The papers presented in the conference focused on constitutionalism, nationalism, democracy, development, political culture and secularism. The conference in Jawaharlal Nehru University brought together presentations on specific dimensions of constitutional democracy around which contemporary debates on constitutional frameworks and democratic practices have accumulated. The papers presented in the conference engaged with questions pertaining to the idea of transformative constitutionalism in countries making the transition to constitutional democracies concerning themselves with the Indian and German experiences. Thus, questions pertaining to constitutional morality and constitutional patri
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