| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Time and the world : interdisciplinary studies in cultural transformations series ; volume 2
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Time and the world ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index. |
| Contents |
William B. Warner, Eirik Holmyvik, and Mona Ringvej / The thing that invented Norway -- Eirik holmøyvik / The changing meaning of "constitution" in Norwegian constitutional history -- Dag Michalsen / The many textual identities of constitutions -- Ulrich Schmid / The Norwegian constitution and the rhetoric of political poetry -- Karen gammelgaard / Constitution as a transnational genre : Norway 1814 and the Habsburg Empire 1848/1849 -- Jacqueline Visconti / Discursive patterns in the Italian and Norwegian constitutions -- Helge jordheim / Timing the constitutional moment : time and language in the Norwegian constitution -- Inger-johanne sand / The Norwegian constitution and its multiple codes : expressions of historical and political change -- Yordanka Madzharova Bruteig / Norwegian parliamentary discourse 2004/2012 on the Norwegian constitution's language form -- Kjell Lars Berge : the evolution of a public opinion text culture in Denmark-Norway 1770/1799 -- Mona Ringvej / To speak what the hour demands : framing the future of public speech at Eidsvold in 1814 -- Ragnvald kalleberg / Scholarly texts' influence on the 2004 revision of the Norwegian Constitution's Article 100. |
| Summary |
The Norwegian Constitution is the oldest functioning constitution in Europe. Its bicentenary in 2014 has inspired the analyses in this volume, where contributors focus on the Constitution as a text to explore new ways of analyzing democratic development. This volume examines the framing of the Norwegian Constitution, its transformations, and its interpretations during the last two centuries. The textual focus enables new understandings of the framers' negotiations and decisions on a democratic micro level and opens new international and historical contexts to understanding the Norwegian Const. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Constitutional history -- Norway.
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Constitutional history. |
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Norway. |
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Constitutional law -- Norway.
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Constitutional law. |
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Democracy -- Norway.
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Democracy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gammelgaard, Karen, editor.
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Holmøyvik, Eirik, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Writing democracy. New York : Berghahn Books, [2015] 9781782385042 (DLC) 2014019631 (OCoLC)881146211 |
| ISBN |
9781782385059 (electronic book) |
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1782385053 (electronic book) |
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9781782385042 (hardback) |
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1782385045 (hardback) |
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