From Parchment to Practice (eBook, ePUB)

Implementing New Constitutions
Redaktion: Ginsburg, Tom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Parchment to Practice explores the set of problems that arise when a new constitution has been adopted. All new constitutions must manage a balance or tension between two forces: aspirations for social and political transformation on the one hand and demands for preservation of old interests and institutions on the other. The period following the initial adoption of a new constitution, is the conceptual, temporal, and institutional bridge between the past and future. It is the moment when the transformative and the preservative forces in constitutional design can come into the sharpest conflict. Through a series of case studies, this volume analyzes the variable nature of these type of conflicts - and the diverse means through which they are mediated, whether successfully or not.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108855556
• Artikelnr.: 62746769

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. The first-period problem of constitutional implementation
Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq; Part I. The Problem of Transformation in
Constitutional Design: 2. Looking 'backward' or 'forward' to American
constitutional development: reflections on constitutional 'endurance' and
'adaptation' in the 'First Republic' Sanford Levinson; 3. Marking
constitutional transitions: the law and politics of constitutional
implementation in South Africa Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux; 4. India's
first period: constitutional doctrine and constitutional stability Madhav
Khosla; 5. Two steps 'forward', one step 'back'? Transformation and
correction in the implementation of Ecuador's 2008 constitution Eric
Alston; Part II. The Issue of Gender: 6. The long road ahead: the first
period of a gender-responsive constitution in Zimbabwe Claudia Flores; 7.
Constitutional reform and women's political participation: electoral gender
quotas in post-Arab Spring Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan Susan H. Williams;
Part III. Institutional Development and the Role of Courts: 8. Explaining
the institutional role of the Colombian Constitutional Court Diego
González; 9. Implementing a new constitution in a competitive authoritarian
context: the case of Kenya James Thuo Gathii; Part IV. Authoritarian
Transitions: 10. Transformational authoritarian constitutions: the case of
Chile Tom Ginsburg; 11. Authoritarian straitjacket or vehicle for
democratic transition?: the risky struggle to change Myanmar's constitution
Melissa Crouch; 12. The Ethiopian constitution and ethnic federalism Daniel
Abebe.