Revolutionary Constitutions. Charismatic leadership and the rule of law
By Bruce Ackerman.
This text is authored by Bruce Ackerman, published by Belknap-Harvard. The first volume of three that the Yale academic announces, and that frankly they are already noted.
The text presents a model of analysis of what the author calls "human scale revolutions", that is, those that are not oriented to the creation of a totalitarian government. This proposal starts from a first stage of struggle, a second of triumph, a third of consolidation and a fourth that consists of the succession crisis.
To illustrate the model, the book presents analyzes of various cases, ranging from France to India, passing through Poland and the United States, without leaving Israel and Iran. This is a virtue of the text, since it does not remain with the classic cases of Constitutional Law.
The author proceeds with intellectual honesty, pointing out the limits of his analysis which, as he claims, is carried out from his office at Yale, but the information handling and analytical acumen are astonishing. The way in which it easily relates legal and political issues is appreciated, since it does not flee from the intertwining they present in reality.
It is worth making a critique of its categories, from that of charismatic leadership to that of human revolution, but that does not hide the coherence of the volume.
A great book, worth reading in a Latin American key
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