From parchment to practice : implementing new constitutions / edited by Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Ginsburg, Tom, editor.

Huq, Aziz Z., editor.

Conference Name:

From Parchment to Practice: Implementing New Constitutions (Conference) (2017 : University of Chicago Law School)

Series:

Comparative constitutional law and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--Congresses.

Constitutional law.

New democracies--Congresses.

New democracies.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : The First-Period Problem of Constitutional Implementation / Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq

Looking "Backward" or "Forward" to American Constitutional Development :

Reflections on Constitutional "Endurance" and "Adaptation" in the "First Republic" / Sanford Levinson

Marking Constitutional Transitions : The Law and Politics of Constitutional

Implementation in South Africa / Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux

India's First Period : Constitutional Doctrine and Constitutional Stability /

Madhav Khosla

Two Steps "Forward", One Step "Back"? : Transformation and Correction in the Implementation of Ecuador's 2008 Constitution / Eric Alston

The Long Road Ahead : The First Period of a Gender-Responsive Constitution in Zimbabwe / Claudia Flores

Constitutional Reform and Women's Political Participation : Electoral Gender

Quotas in Post-Arab Spring Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan / Susan H. Williams

Explaining the Institutional Role of the Colombian Constitutional Court /

Diego González

Implementing a New Constitution in a Competitive Authoritarian Context : The Case of Kenya / James Thuo Gathii

Transformational Authoritarian Constitutions : The Case of Chile /

Tom Ginsburg

Authoritarian Straitjacket or Vehicle for Democratic Transition? : The Risky

Struggle to Change Myanmar's Constitution / Melissa Crouch

The Ethiopian Constitution and Ethnic Federalism / Daniel Abebe.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108767859

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