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Constituents before assembly : participation, deliberation, and representation in the crafting of new constitutions / Todd A. Eisenstadt, A. Carl LeVan, Tofigh Maboudi
(Comparative constitutional law and policy)

Publisher	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year	2017
Authors	*Eisenstadt, Todd A. author LeVan, A. Carl author Maboudi, Tofigh author

Links to the text	Location	Volume	Call No.	Barcode No.	Status	Comments	ISBN	Printed	Restriction	Reserve
Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00064045		Cambridge Core All Books (電子ブック)	9781316717080

Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource (xxii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017) Under what circumstances do new constitutions improve a nation's level of democracy? Between 1974 and 2014, democracy increased in 77 countries following the adoption of a new constitution, but it decreased or stayed the same in 47 others. This book demonstrates that increased participation in the forming of constitutions positively impacts levels of democracy. It is discovered that the degree of citizen participation at the 'convening stage' of constitution-making has a strong effect on levels of democracy. This finding defies the common theory that levels of democracy result from the content of constitutions, and instead lends support to 'deliberative' theories of democracy. Patterns of constitutions are then compared, differentiating imposed and popular constitution-making processes, using case studies from Chile, Nigeria, Gambia, and Venezuela to illustrate the dynamics specific to imposed constitution-making, and case studies from Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, and Tunisia to illustrate the specific dynamics of popular constitution-making HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316717080
Subjects	LCSH:Constitutional law LCSH:New democracies LCSH:Constitutions -- Case studies All Subject Search
Classification	LCC:K3165 DC23:342
ID	8000060373
ISBN	9781316717080