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1 Comparative Constitutional Design This volume brings together essays by many of the leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from myriad disciplinary perspectives, including law, philosophy, political science, and economics. The authors 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, it provides the state of the art in a field of growing theoretical and practical importance. is the Leo Spitz Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the coauthor of The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009, with Zachary Elkins and James Melton), which won the best book award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. His other books include Rule by Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (2008, with Tamir Moustafa) and Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), which won the American Political Science Association s C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book on law and courts. in this web service
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3 Comparative Constitutional Design University of Chicago, School of Law in this web service
4 cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Mexico City 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY , USA Information on this title: / This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of. First published 2012 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Comparative constitutional design /. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn (hardback) 1. Constitutional law. I. Ginsburg, Tom. k3165.c dc ISBN Hardback has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. in this web service
5 Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments page vii viii ix xi 1. Introduction 1 I. Design Processes 2. Clearing and Strengthening the Channels of Constitution Making 15 Jon Elster 3. Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter? 31 Justin Blount, Zachary Elkins, and II. How Do We Get to Constitutional Design? Constraints and Conditions 4. Democratization and Countermajoritarian Institutions: Power and Constitutional Design in Self-Enforcing Democracy 69 Susan Alberts, Chris Warshaw, and Barry R. Weingast 5. The Origins of Parliamentary Responsibility 101 Adam Przeworski, Tamar Asadurian, and Anjali Thomas Bohlken 6. Social Foundations of China s Living Constitution 138 Randall Peerenboom v in this web service
6 vi Contents 7. The Political Economy of Constitutionalism in a Non-Secularist World 164 Ran Hirschl III. Issues in Institutional Design 8. Constitutional Amendment Rules: The Denominator Problem 195 Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden 9. Collective-Action Federalism: A General Theory of Article I, Section Robert D. Cooter and Neil S. Siegel 10. Personal Laws and Equality: The Case of India 266 Martha C. Nussbaum 11. Constitutional Adjudication, Italian Style 294 John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino 12. Tyrannophobia 317 Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule 13. Do Executive Term Limits Cause Constitutional Crises? 350, Zachary Elkins, and James Melton Index 381 in this web service
7 Figures 3.1 Proportion of constitutions in force that provide for public ratification page Proportion of constitutions in force that specify some promulgation procedure Countermajoritarian provisions typology a Model b Model Spatial preference map, countermajoritarian equilibrium (outcome D) Spatial preference map, authoritarian equilibrium (outcome G) Spatial preference map, an equilibrium with mutual defection Scale and probability of amendment given supermajority rule Scale and probability of amendment given simple-majority rule The eighteen clauses in Article I, Section Economic analysis of enumerated powers Percent of countries with executive term limits, by type of limits Mean tenure and mean permitted tenure over time Percent of countries with executive term limits, by region Maximum tenure for heads of state (combines term length and term limits) Probability of maximum tenure evasions by executives by year Probability of maximum tenure evasions by executives by year and region Logistic regression model predicting successful term limit violations 368 vii in this web service
8 Tables 3.1 Actors and processes (N = 460) page Constitutional design processes and average de jure parliamentary power Proportion of constitutional texts containing de jure parliamentary power provisions, by design process Proportion of constitutions containing direct democracy provisions, by use of referendum Proportion of constitutions containing selected rights provisions, by use of referendum Summary of constitutions and practices Panel summary statistics Aggregate summary statistics Amendment rates using aggregate data Panel negative binomial results Estimates of amendment probability House-legislative rule interaction Survey results for selected nations Punctuality and mode of exit Average number of years with a conflict by overstay status Analysis of overstay recurrence Mean level of democracy (as measured by polity) by initial regime type and overstay status 372 viii in this web service
9 Contributors Susan Alberts recently received her PhD from the Department of Political Science, Georgetown University. Tamar Asadurian is an Analyst at the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, DC, and holds a PhD from the Department of Politics, New York University. Justin Blount is PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois. Anjali Thomas Bohlken is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia. Robert D. Cooter is Herman Selvin Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School. Rosalind Dixon is Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School. Zachary Elkins is Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Jon Elster is Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences, Columbia University. John Ferejohn is Samuel Tilden Professor of Law, New York University Law School. is Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago Law School. Ran Hirschl is Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Development, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Canada. Richard Holden is Professor of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia. James Melton is Post-Doctoral Fellow, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy. ix in this web service
10 x Contributors Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago. Pasquale Pasquino is Global Distinguished Professor, New York University. Randall Peerenboom is Professor of Law, La Trobe University, Australia. Eric A. Posner is Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, University of Chicago. Adam Przeworski is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of European Studies and Professor of Politics and Economics, New York University. Neil S. Siegel is Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University School of Law. Adrian Vermeule is John H. Watson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Chris Warshaw is PhD candidate, Department of Political Science. Barry R. Weingast is Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University. in this web service
11 Acknowledgments Thanks to Dean Michael Schill and the Russell Baker Scholars Fund at the University of Chicago Law School for support for this project. Chantelle Hougland and Angela Kim provided research assistance. Cooter and Siegel acknowledge the editors of the Stanford Law Review, who published related material in Volume 63 (2010). Thanks also to the editors of the William and Mary Law Review, who published material from Chapter 13 in Volume 52 (2011), and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, who published material from Chapter 2 in Volume 5. xi in this web service
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