TY - BOOK ID - 77882610 TI - Constitutional theocracy PY - 2010 SN - 0674059379 9780674059375 9780674048195 0674048199 0674264452 PB - Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Constitutional law KW - Theocracy KW - God KW - Religion and law KW - Religious aspects. KW - Political aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77882610 AB - In this ground-breaking book, renowned constitutional scholar Ran Hirschl describes “constitutional theocracy,” a new, hybrid form of government that has emerged from an overlapping of two parallel trends during the 20th century: the rise in political religion on the one hand and the spread of constitutional forms of government to most countries in the world on the other. Hirschl delivers two blockbuster theses: That in most constitutional theocracies, 1) courts are the primary secular agents of government, and 2) the electorate usually has a choice between a secular party that is against redistribution of wealth and a more theological party that supports redistribution. This last thesis, especially, will be news to many of the book’s American readers, who are accustomed to a theological politics stridently opposed to redistribution. ER -