Public Participation in African Constitutionalism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Abbiate, Tania; Federico, Veronica; Böckenförde, Markus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, many constitutions in Africa have been drafted anew or considerably revised, with the "international community" often encouraging participatory constitution making processes. This book questions the glorification of public participation and explains what lessons can be drawn from experiences of public participation in practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351719650
• Artikelnr.: 50517728

Autorenporträt

Tania Abbiate is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Germany. Markus Böckenförde is Executive Director and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany, and a Visiting Professor at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary. Veronica Federico is Researcher of Comparative Public Law in the Department of Legal Studies at the University of Florence, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: Conceptualizing public participation in constitution-making
processes
Chapter 1. Participation - to unveil a myth
Chapter 2. Letting the constituent power decide? Merits and challenges of
referenda in constitution-making processes in Africa
PART II: Participation in constitution-making processes
Chapter 3. The flawed public participation in the Egyptian constitutional
process
Chapter 4. The 2011 constitution-making process in Morocco: A limited and
controlled public participation
Chapter 5. Participation in the Tunisian constitution-making process
Chapter 6. The role of participation in the two Kenyan
constitution-building processes of 2000-2005 and 2010: Lessons learnt?
Chapter 7. The francophone paradox: Participation in Senegal and in Central
African Republic
Chapter 8. People and constitutions: The case of Zambia
Chapter 9. Public participation under authoritarian rule: The case of
Zimbabwe
Chapter 10. The role of civil society in the Libyan ponstitution-making
process
Chapter 11. Public participation and elite capture: A yet incomplete
struggle towards a new constitution in Tanzania
Chapter 12. Mission impossible? Opportunities and limitations of public
participation in constitution-caking in a failed state - the case of
Somalia
Chapter 13. The process of drafting a citizen-driven constitution in South
Sudan: Which role for the public?
PART III: Participation in context: Does it make a difference?
Chapter 14. Wanjiku's constitution: Women's participation and their impact
in Kenya's constitution-building processes
Chapter 15. Societal engagement, democratic transition, and constitutional
implementation in Malawi
Chapter 16. Public participation and the death penalty in South Africa's
constitution-making process
Chapter 17. A success story of participation? LGBTI rights in South Africa
Chapter 18. The cross-cutting issue of religion in the Tunisian
participatory constitution-making process
Chapter 19. Does participation help to foster constitutionalism in Africa?