Because constitutional change is a focus of my research these days, I thought I might say a few words about how Steve Teles’ book The <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Conservative-Legal-Movement-Princeton/dp/0691122083″>Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement</a> is important to contemporary theories of constitutional change. Teles’ book discusses how competition between different ideological groups occurs outside of the electoral process: through institution building, norm development and norm proliferation. These mechanisms are quite important to understanding constitutional change, and legal change more generally. [click to continue…]
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