Architecture of Democracy Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy

Name: Architecture of Democracy Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy
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ISBN: 9780199246465

ISBN-10: 0199246467

ISBN-13: 9780199246465

Edition: 2002

Authors: Andrew Reynolds

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Reynolds brings together the leading scholars to discuss the successes and failures of constitutional design. Arend Lijphart and Donald Horowitz debate their own contributions to the field. Emerging scholars then present important new evidence from Europe, the CIS, Latin America, and Africa. Chapters analyse the effect of presidential and parliamentary systems, issues of federalism and autonomy, and the varying impact of electoral systems. The book concludes with case studies of Fiji, Ireland, Eritrea, Indonesia, Nigeria, and India. The Architecture of Democracy is the culmination of the study of constitutional engineering in the third wave of democracy and sets parameters for this crucial…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 530
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



The Architecture Of Democracy


Oxford Studies in Democratization


The Architecture of Democracy


Preface


List of Figures


List of Tables


Contributors



Institutional Design in Divided Societies: an Overview



Constitutional Design: Proposals Versus Processes



The Wave of Power-Sharing Democracy



Institutions and Coalition Building in Post-Communist Transitions



Presidentialism, Federalism and Decentralization, and Electoral Systems



Presidents, Parliaments, and Democracy: Insights from the Post-Communist World



Presidentialism and Democratic Performance



Constitutional Asymmetries: Communal Representation, Federalism, and Cultural Autonomy



Federalism and State-Building: Post-Communist and Post-Colonial Perspectives



Ballots Not Bullets: Testing Consociational Theories of Ethnic Conflict, Electoral Systems, and Democratization



Designing Electoral Rules and Waiting for an Electoral System to Evolve



Country Studies



Constitutional Engineering in Post-Coup Fiji



The Belfast Agreement and the British-Irish Agreement: Consociation, Confederal Institutions, a Federacy, and a Peace Process



The Eritrean Experience in Constitution Making: The Dialectic of Process and Substance



Indonesia's Democratic Transition: Playing by the Rules


References


Index