LEADER 04311nam 2200649 450 001 9910787655803321 005 20230421055514.0 010 $a0-300-15808-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300158083 035 $a(CKB)2670000000427053 035 $a(EBL)3421295 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001101105 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11710929 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001101105 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11064311 035 $a(PQKB)10268656 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421295 035 $a(DE-B1597)486238 035 $a(OCoLC)858967890 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300158083 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421295 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10767078 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL521972 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000427053 100 $a19920624d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe future of liberal revolution /$fBruce Ackerman 210 1$aNew Haven :$cYale University Press,$d1992. 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-05396-7 311 0 $a0-300-05898-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. New Era --$t2. Rethinking Revolution --$t3. The Next European Revolution --$t4. Constitutionalizing Revolution --$t5. The Mirage of Corrective Justice --$t6. Judges as Founders --$t7. The Meaning of 1989 --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aSince 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their opportunities and construct enduring forms of political order? In this important and timely book, a leading political theorist discusses the possibility of liberal democracy in Western and Eastern Europe and offers practical suggestions for its realization. Bruce Ackerman begins by sketching the challenges faced a Western Europe free for the first time in half a century to determine its own fate without the constant intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union. Unless decisive steps are taken, this moment of promise can degenerate into a new cycle of nationalist power struggle. Revolutionary action is now required to build the foundations of a democratic federal Europe-a union strong enough to keep the peace and to combat the threat of local tyrannies. Ackerman next considers Eastern Europe and discusses fundamental problems overlooked in the rush to build market economies there. He points out that leading countries-including Poland, Hungary, and Russia-have yet to establish new constitutions, contenting themselves instead with hasty amendments to old Communist documents. This is a great mistake, says Ackerman, for there is an urgent need to constitutionalize liberal revolution, and the window of opportunity for doing this is far smaller than many people realize. Neither judicial efforts to punish collaborators with the old regimes and to redress wrongs done to their victims nor the judicial activism now sweeping Eastern Europe should take priority over the formulation of democratically legitimated constitutions. Ackerman concludes by considering the impact of 1989 on South Africa, Latin America, and the United States, exploring how decisive liberal action throughout the world can help to expand the range of functioning constitutional democracies and recover liberalism's lost revolutionary heritage. 606 $aConstitutional law$zEurope, Eastern 606 $aEuropean federation 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zEurope, Eastern 606 $aLiberalism 607 $aEurope$xPolitics and government$z1989- 615 0$aConstitutional law 615 0$aEuropean federation. 615 0$aJustice, Administration of 615 0$aLiberalism. 676 $a320.947 700 $aAckerman$b Bruce A$0123194 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787655803321 996 $aThe future of liberal revolution$93815200 997 $aUNINA