Comparative Constitutional Design

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Comparative Constitutional Design

By Tom Ginsburg
Cambridge University Press May 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781107020566
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
May 2012
Format
Hardback , 406 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Tom Ginsburg
University of Chicago School of Law

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