Assessing constitutional performance
"From London to Libya, from Istanbul to Iceland, there is great interest among comparative constitutional scholars and practitioners about when a proposed constitution is likely to succeed. But what does it mean for a constitution to succeed? Are there universal criteria of success, which apply across the board? Or is the choice of criteria entirely idiosyncratic? This edited volume takes on the idea of constitutional success and shows the manifold ways in which it can be understood. It collect…
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- Full title :Assessing constitutional performance / edited by Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq.
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"From London to Libya, from Istanbul to Iceland, there is great interest among comparative constitutional scholars and practitioners about when a proposed constitution is likely to succeed. But what does it mean for a constitution to succeed? Are there universal criteria of success, which apply across the board? Or is the choice of criteria entirely idiosyncratic? This edited volume takes on the idea of constitutional success and shows the manifold ways in which it can be understood. It collects essays from philosophers, political scientists, political scientists, empiricists, and legal scholars, that approach the definition of constitutional success from many different angles. It also brings together case studies from Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. By exploring a varied array of constitutional histories, this book shows how complex ideas of 'constitutional success' play out differently in different contexts and provides examples of how "success" can be differently defined under different circumstances"--
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- Publication Date:2016.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781316651018, 1316651010, 9781107154797, 1107154790, 9781316608357, 1316608352
- oclc:ocn957170223
- LC Classification:K3165
- Dewey Decimal:342
Table of Contents
Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Assessing constitutional performance; Part I Defining constitutional performance; 2 Hippocratic constitutional design; 3 What is a good constitution? Assessing the constitutional proposal in the Icelandic experiment; 4 When is a constitution doing well? The Alberdian test in the Americas; 5 Parties and constitutional performance; Part II Managing specific constitutional challenges
6 Constitutional performance in transitions from military to civilian rule7 Constitutional permissiveness, constitutional restrictiveness, and religious freedom; 8 Performance of constitutions: Transitional provisions; 9 Time and constitutional efficacy; 10 Competitive democracy and the constitutional minimum core; Part III Case studies; 11 Ambedkar's constitution: Promoting inclusion, opposing majority tyranny; 12 Assessing the Constitution of Kenya 2010 five years later; 13 The Arab Spring constitutions: For whose benefit?
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