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City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity: Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism

Autor Ran Hirschl
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2025
More than half of the world's population lives in cities; by 2050, it will be more than three quarters. Projections suggest that megacities of 50 million or even 100 million inhabitants will emerge by the end of the century, mostly in the Global South. This shift marks a major and unprecedented transformation of the organization of society, both spatially and geopolitically. Our constitutional institutions and imagination, however, have failed to keep pace with this new reality. Cities have remained virtually absent from constitutional law and constitutional thought, not to mention from comparative constitutional studies more generally. As the world is urbanizing at an extraordinary rate, this book argues, new thinking about constitutionalism and urbanization is desperately needed. In six chapters, the book considers the reasons for the "constitutional blind spot" concerning the metropolis, probes the constitutional relationship between states and (mega)cities worldwide, examines patterns of constitutional change and stalemate in city status, and aims to carve a new place for the city in constitutional thought, constitutional law and constitutional practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197810200
ISBN-10: 0197810209
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 165 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Winner of the 2021 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research
...Hirschl deserves much praise in bringing to the fore a topic that should not have stayed in the shadows for so long. City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity raises tough questions and forces us to confront them head-on. This is a field-defining book—the results of which are already evident within the short period since this book's launch (and even before).
After a series of important books, Ran Hirschl has turned his attention to the constitutional status of cities. In City, State, he reveals a resounding constitutional 'silence' as to the status of cities in the old constitutional systems of Europe and North America and a contrasting level of focus and innovation in the Global South. Hirschl persuasively argues that the constitutional empowerment of cities holds promise for the great social problems of our day including representational fairness, socio-economic inequality and climate change. Delving deep into the fundamentals of the field, City, State challenges orthodox assumptions of constitutionalism and lays out new, rich veins of inquiry that will be influential for decades to come.
Transformative scholarship from the master of scholarly transformations and seminal studies. Ran Hirschl details how the state and provincial borders that structure constitutional law fail to capture the urban-rural divide that structures much constitutional politics, a divide Hirschl demonstrates that in regime after regime disempowers and impoverishes the places where the vast majority of the world's population lives.
Even though global cities have grown dramatically in size and importance, most constitutions - and hence legal scholars - have paid almost no attention to them. Hirschl's impressive, timely, and wide-ranging book fills a large hole in the literature. It explains why the economic strength of cities has so often been accompanied by weakness in the constitutional order, and then explores conditions under which urban residents have been able to carve out some constitutional autonomy, especially in developing countries. This book will be of great interest to legal scholars, social scientists, and urbanists.
Ran Hirschl has written an important and provocative book that touches upon a core question of constitutional law... It is a powerful, enjoyable work that will force readers to consider the impact of exogenous factors such as population growth.

Notă biografică

Ran Hirschl is University Professor, and the David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics at the University of Toronto. In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) - the highest academic accolade in that country. The official citation describes him as "one of the world's leading scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence."