Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Constitutional change engineering / Xenophon Contiades -- 2. Constitutional change in Austria / Manfred Stelzer -- 3. The process of constitutional amendment in Belgium / Christian Behrendt -- 4. Constitutional change and constitutional amendment : a Canadian conundrum / Allan C. Hutchinson -- 5. Formal and informal methods of constitutional change in Denmark / Helle Krunke -- 6. Constitutional amendment in Finland / Tuomas Ojanen -- 7. Constitutional amendment in France / Wanda Mastor and Liliane Icher -- 8. Constitutional amendments and constitutional changes in Germany / Markus Kotzur -- 9. Constitutional change in Greece / Xenophon Contiades and Ioannis Tassopoulos -- 10/ Constitutional amendment in Ireland / Fiona De Londras and David Gwynn Morgan -- 11. Constitutional revision in Italy : a marginal instrument for constitutional change / Tania Groppi -- 12. Constitutional amendment in Luxembourg / Jörg Gerkrath -- 13. The constitutional revision process in the Netherlands : sensible security valve or cause of constitutional paralysis? / Wim J.M. Voermans -- 14. The Portuguese constitution of 1976 : half-life and decay / Jónatas E.M. Machado -- 15. Constitutional change in Spain / Abraham Barrero Ortega and Irene Sobrino Guijarro -- 16. Constitutional amendment in Sweden / Lars-Göran Malmberg -- 17. Constitutional revision : the case of Switzerland / Thomas Fleiner -- 18. Constitutional amendment in the United Kingdom / Robert Blackburn -- 19. Constitutional revision in the United States of America / John R. Vile -- 20. Models of constitutional change / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou.

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