Redrafting Constitutions in Democratic Regimes (eBook, PDF)

Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Redaktion: Negretto, Gabriel L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Growing public discontent with the performance and quality of many contemporary democracies makes them vulnerable to popular pressures to profoundly transform or replace their constitutions. However, there is little systematic academic discussion on the legal and political challenges that these events pose to democratic principles and practices. This book, a collaborative effort by legal scholars and political scientists, analyzes these challenges from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. It fills a theoretical vacuum by examining the possibility that constitutions might be replaced within a democratic regime, while exploring the conditions under which these processes are more compatible or less compatible with democratic principles. It also calls attention to the real-world political importance of the phenomenon, because recent episodes of constitutional redrafting in countries including Kenya, Poland, Venezuela and Hungary suggest that some aspects of these processes may be associated with either the improvement or the gradual erosion of democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108881135
• Artikelnr.: 66183917

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: new constitutions in democratic regimes Gabriel L.
Negretto; Part I. Conceptual, Normative, and Empirical Issues: 2.
Constitution making through law Joel Colón-Ríos; 3. Expanding revision
clauses in democratic constitutions William Partlett; 4. Courts and
constitution making in democratic regimes: a contextual approach David
Landau; 5. Replacing constitutions in democratic regimes: elite cooperation
and citizen participation Gabriel L. Negretto; Part II. Case Studies: 6.
The difference power diffusion makes: explaining divergent outcomes in
Colombia (1990-1991) and Venezuela (1998-1999) Ana María Bejarano and
Renata Segura; 7. Procedural rules and majoritarian politics in Poland
(1993-1997) and Hungary (2010-2011) Gabriel L. Negretto and Solongo Wandan;
8. Thailand's democratic moment: the 1997 constitution Tom Ginsburg; 9.
Political elites and the people: Kenya's decade-long constitution-making
process Christina Murray; 10. The anatomy of constitution making: from
Denmark in 1849 to Iceland in 2017 Thorvaldur Gylfason.