The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911 was a complex event with diverse ideological orientations. It established Iran's first elected parliament (the Majlis ), which included members of various social classes and also succeeded to ratify Iran's first Constitution, wh…
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The nature of the Republican constitution has been much contested by scholars studying the history of the Roman Republic. In considering the problems of the late Republic, the nature of the constitution is an important question, for if we do not understand what the constitution …
As a classical scholar and prominent founding father, James Wilson was at once statesman, judge, and political thinker, who read Cicero as an example worthy of emulation and as a philosopher whose theory could be applied to his own age. Classical reception studies have focused o…
Iranian constitutionalism has been in existence since the early twentieth century, and has taken many forms. Despite these decades of experience, Iranian constitutional development has yet to reach maturity, as reflected by the domestic turmoil of its various form of governance.…
Le monde arabe, où l'Égypte occupe une place de choix par sa situation géographique et son histoire, n'a pas connu de gouvernements démocratiques depuis l'accès à l'indépendance des pays le composant. On soulève dans ce travail la question des mécanismes de la survivance autorit…
This study attempts to understand and explain the rise and fall of Greek-Cypriot irredentism and its geopolitical goal of union with Greece. The major question to be addressed concerns the type of state that emerged from the geopolitical neutralization and emotional unfulfillmen…
This dissertation seeks to understand why the Arab world has failed to participate in the Third Wave of democratization. It proposes that the key obstacles to Arab democracy lie in the institutions and political processes that impede the development of Liberal Constitutionalism …
This dissertation explains how the Indian Constitution that came into force in 1950, became part of the lived experience of ordinary Indians during the transition from the colonial state to the postcolonial republic. The Constitution by expanding the powers of the state to effec…
In recent years, due to globalization processes, religion emerged as a primary source of inter-communal tensions worldwide. Academic thinking tackling with possibilities of diffusing such tensions has been dominated by the liberal view, which offers the legal separation of relig…
The status of freedom of expression in Kenya improved considerably in the 1990s. By the early and mid 2000s, Kenyans could express themselves without fear that the state would arrest, detain, or otherwise interfere with their expression. This relatively expansive freedom was the…
My dissertation identifies the conditions needed to sustain a developmental state. I argue that the presence of 'disciplinary capital' and the institutionalization of 'leadership succession' determine the developmental patterns for bureaucratic pursuit of national economic growt…