A New Constitutionalism: Designing Political Institutions for a Good Society. (book reviews)

The essayists in this collection believe "that something systematic can be said about how political institutions work and can be made to work . . . and why some regimes are better than others'. In the current intellectual climate, this seems an almost reckless statement, since postmodern analysis has quite powerfully suggested how tightly bound all political communities are to their particular and contingent rhetorical conditions.

The subtitle might lead one to expect a comparative analysis of constitutional regimes rigorous enough to combat postmodernism's claim and to show that ...

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