Comparative Constitutional Design

Author: Tom Ginsburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107020566
Published In: May 2012
Format: Hardback , 406 pages
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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.

• Presents a range of topics not usually analyzed in a single volume

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
List of Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
1. Introduction Tom Ginsburg	1
Part I. Design Processes	13
2. Clearing and Strengthening the Channels of Constitution Making Jon Elster	15
3. Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter? Justin Blount, Zachary Elkins, and Tom Ginsburg	31
Part II. How Do We Get to Constitutional Design? Constraints and Conditions	67
4. Democratization and Countermajoritarian Institutions: Power and Constitutional Design in Self-Enforcing Democracy Susan Alberts, Chris Warshaw, and Barry R. Weingast	69
5. The Origins of Parliamentary Responsibility Adam Przeworski, Tamar Asadurian, and Anjali Thomas Bohlken	101
6. Social Foundations of China’s Living Constitution Randall Peerenboom	138
7. The Political Economy of Constitutionalism in a Non-Secularist World Ran Hirschl	164
Part III. Issues in Institutional Design	193
8. Constitutional Amendment Rules: The Denominator Problem Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden	195
9. Collective-Action Federalism: A General Theory of Article I, Section 8 Robert D. Cooter and Neil S. Siegel	219
10. Personal Laws and Equality: The Case of India Martha C. Nussbaum	266
11. Constitutional Adjudication, Italian Style John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino	294
12. Tyrannophobia Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule	317
13. Do Executive Term Limits Cause Constitutional Crises? Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and James Melton	350
Index	381