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Contesting a World-Constitution? Anti-systemic movements and constitutional forms in Ireland, 1848-2008.
- Source :
- Journal of World-Systems Research; 2016, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p77-107, 31p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Recent accounts of constitutional development have emphasised commonalities among diverse constitutions in terms of the transnational migration of legal institutions and ideas. World-systems analysis gives critical expression to this emergent intellectual trajectory. Since the late 18<superscript>th</superscript> century, successive, international waves of constitutionmaking have tended to correspond with decisive turning points in the contested formation of the historical capitalist world-system. The present article attempts to think through the nature of this correspondence in the Irish context. Changes to the Irish constitution, I suggest, owed to certain local manifestations of anti-systemic movements within the historical capitalist world-system and to constitution-makers' attempts to contain--militarily, politically and ideologically--these movements' democratic and egalitarian ideals and practices. Various configurations of the balance of power in Irish society between "national" (core-peripheral) and "social" (capital-labor/"other") forces crystallised in constitutional form. Thus far, conservative and nationalist constitutional projects have tended to either dominate or incorporate social democratic and radical ones, albeit a process continually contested at critical junctures by civil society and by the organized left, both old and new. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONSTITUTIONAL amendments
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1076156X
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of World-Systems Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114248634
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2016.603