TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Susan H.
TI  - Social Difference and Constitutionalism in Pan-Asia
T2  - Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
SN  - 9781139567312 (ebook)
AV  - KNC524 .S63 2014
U1  - 342.5 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - In many countries, social differences, such as religion or race and ethnicity, threaten the stability of the social and legal order. This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenge of difference. The book brings together lawyers, political scientists, historians, religious studies scholars, and area studies experts to consider how constitutions address issues of difference across 'Pan-Asia', a wide swath of the world that runs from the Middle East, through Asia, and into Oceania. The book's multidisciplinary and comparative approach makes it unique. The book is organized into five sections, each devoted to constitutional approaches to a particular type of difference - religion, ethnicity/race, urban/rural divisions, language, and gender and sexual orientation - in two or more countries in Pan Asia. The introduction offers a framework for thinking comprehensively about the many ways constitutionalism interacts with difference
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139567312
ER  -