@article{1478934,
      recid = {1478934},
      author = {Hirschl, Ran, },
      title = {Constitutional Theocracy /},
      pages = {1 online resource (314 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478934},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059375},
}