Constituent Assemblies by Jon Elster
Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus came from the study of the American and French constituent assemblies in the late eighteenth century, this volume exemplifies the large comparative scope of current research. The contributors discuss constituent assemblies in South East Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, and in Nordic countries. Among the new insights they provide is a better understanding of how constituent assemblies may fail, either by not producing a document at all or by adopting a constitution that fails to serve as a neutral framework for ordinary politics. In a theoretical afterword, Jon Elster, an inspirational thinker on the current topic, offers an analysis of the micro-foundations of constitution-making, with special emphasis on the role of crises-generated passions.-
In the Shadow of the Constitution
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Incomplete Constitutions and Coordination in Deeply Divided Societies
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Reputation and Judicial Tactics
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The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey
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Presidential Legislation in India
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Constitutional Intolerance
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Comparative Constitutional Design
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Redrafting Constitutions in Democratic Regimes
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Consequential Courts
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Constituents Before Assembly
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The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America
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A Qualified Hope
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Constitutional Courts as Mediators
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Constitutional Convergence in East Asia
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Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism
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Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia
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The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective
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The Politico-Legal Dynamics of Judicial Review
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Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century
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Unstable Constitutionalism
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The New Fourth Branch
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The Adventures of the Constituent Power
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Judicial Review in Norway
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Engaging with Social Rights
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Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis
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Constitutional Courts in Asia
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Proportionality
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Assessing Constitutional Performance
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The Veil of Participation
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Hybrid Constitutionalism
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Reconstructing Rights
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Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions
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Perils of Judicial Self-Government in Transitional Societies
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Constitutions and Religious Freedom
Jon Elster is Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science, Department of Political Science at Columbia University, New York, and the 2016 recipient of the Skytte Prize in Political Science. He has authored more than twenty monographs, most recently Securities against Misrule (2013), and is currently preparing a comparative analysis of the Federal Convention and the first French Constituent Assembly. Roberto Gargarella has written and edited more than twenty books, including Latin American Constitutionalism, 1810–2010 (2013) and The Legal Foundations of Inequality (Cambridge, 2010). He has been awarded a John Guggenheim Foundation grant, a Harry Frank Guggenheim grant, and a Fulbright grant. He has been a Visiting Professor in Universities in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Vatsal Naresh is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, Connecticut, and focuses on democratic theory, political violence, and constitution-making. Bjørn Erik Rasch has written or edited thirteen books, most recently Parliaments and Government Formation: Unpacking Investiture Rules (2015), and numerous journal articles in comparative politics and political economy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108427524 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108427529 |
| Title | Constituent Assemblies |
| Author | Jon Elster |
| Series | Comparative Constitutional Law And Policy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2018-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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