City, State - Ran Hirschl

City, State

Constitutionalism and the Megacity

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Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-092277-1 (ISBN)
44,25 inkl. MwSt
More than half of the world's population lives in cities; by 2050, it will be more than three quarters. Projections suggest that megacities of 50 million or even 100 million inhabitants will emerge by the end of the century, mostly in the Global South. This shift marks a major and unprecedented transformation of the organization of society, both spatially and geopolitically. Our constitutional institutions and imagination, however, have failed to keep pace with this new reality. Cities have remained virtually absent from constitutional law and constitutional thought, not to mention from comparative constitutional studies more generally. As the world is urbanizing at an extraordinary rate, this book argues, new thinking about constitutionalism and urbanization is desperately needed. In six chapters, the book considers the reasons for the "constitutional blind spot" concerning the metropolis, probes the constitutional relationship between states and (mega)cities worldwide, examines patterns of constitutional change and stalemate in city status, and aims to carve a new place for the city in constitutional thought, constitutional law and constitutional practice.

Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science & Law at the University of Toronto. As of 2016, he holds the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism, having been granted a coveted AvH International Research Award (the most highly-endowed research award in Germany) by the Humboldt Foundation. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)--the highest academic accolade in that country. The official citation describes him as "one of the world's leading scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence."

Introduction: An Urban Era

Chapter 1: The Sound of Constitutional Silence

Chapter 2: The Metropolis in "Old World" Constitutional Law

Chapter 3: Constitutional Innovation in Governing the Metropolis:
Law, Economic, Politics

Chapter 4: Attempts at City Self-Empowerment

Chapter 5: Rethinking City Constitutional Status

Acknowledgments, List of Cases Cited, Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 236 x 155 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-19-092277-X / 019092277X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-092277-1 / 9780190922771
Zustand Neuware
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