01768     2200229   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036007000300056008004100059020002200100082000800122084001400130100002400144245008900168250001100257260004900268300002400317650003500341520111000376990002601486990002601512INLIS00000000001031120221101114338  a0010-0122000045ta221101                g          0 eng    a978-1-78990-216-7  a342  a342 FRA c0 aFrankenberg, Gunter1 aComparative Constitutional Studies :bBetween Magic and Deceit /cGunter Frankenberg  aCet. 1  aCheltenham :bEdward Elgar Publishing,c2018  axi, 343 p. ;c23 cm 4aComparative constitutional law  aConstitutions traffic in magic and deceit, argues Günter Frankenberg, promising freedom and democracy even as they underwrite the exercise of coercive power on a massive scale. Scholars should approach constitutions with a healthy skepticism, but, Frankenberg contends, most mainstream scholars are too credulous, especially regarding the claims of liberal constitutionalism. Comparative Constitutional Studies serves as his corrective to the perceived blind spots and predilections of mainstream comparative constitutional scholarship, and it gives attention to little-known constitutions, forgotten histories, and alternatives to liberal constitutionalism. It’s a rich, challenging, and valuable book, one that takes the reader to some off-the-beaten-track places and offers some new perspectives on well-studied landmarks. It does not, however, represent such a radical break from mainstream scholarship as the author supposes, both because the book’s own analysis, in practice, is not deeply unconventional, and because mainstream scholarship is more diverse than Frankenberg gives it credit for.  a26668/MKRI-P/XII-2021  a26668/MKRI-P/XII-2021