Comparative Constitutional Design (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ginsburg, Tom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together essays by many of the leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from many perspectives to collectively assess what we know - and do not know - about the design process as well as particular institutional choices concerning executive power, constitutional amendment processes and many other issues. Bringing together positive and normative analysis, this volume provides state of the art in a field of growing theoretical and practical importance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139234634
• Artikelnr.: 52971801

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Tom Ginsburg; Part I. Design Processes: 2. Clearing and
strengthening the channels of constitution-making Jon Elster; 3. What we
know - and don't know - about design processes Justin Blount, Zachary
Elkins and Tom Ginsburg; Part II. How Do We Get to Constitutional Design?
Constraints and Conditions: 4. Democratization and countermajoritarian
institutions: the role of power and constitutional design in self-enforcing
democracy Susan Alberts, Chris Warshaw and Barry R. Weingast; 5. The
origins of parliamentary responsibility Adam Przeworski, Tamar Asadurian
and Anjali Thomas Bohlken; 6. The social foundations of China's living
constitution Randall Peerenboom; 7. The political economy of
constitutionalism in a post-secular world Ran Hirschl; Part III. Issues in
Institutional Design: 8. Designing constitutional amendment rules, to scale
Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden; 9. Federalism: general welfare,
interstate commerce, and economic analysis Robert D. Cooter and Neil
Seigel; 10. Personal laws and equality: the case of India Martha Nussbaum;
11. Constitutional adjudication, Italian style John Ferejohn and Pasquale
Pasquino; 12. Tyrannophobia Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermuele; 13. Do
executive term limits cause constitutional crises? Tom Ginsburg, Zachary
Elkins and James Melton.