This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.

Constitutions in authoritarian regimes are often denigrated as meaningless exercises in political theater. Yet the burgeoning literature on authoritarian regime

The contributions to this book analyse and submit to critique authoritarian constitutionalism as an important phenomenon in its own right, not merely as a devia

This landmark volume of specially commissioned, original contributions by top international scholars organizes the issues and controversies of the rich and rapi

The world has seen many new constitutions promising social rights and adopting innovative representative institutions. This book presents examples from the Unit