Participatory Constitutional Change

Participatory Constitutional Change
Author: Xenophon Contiades
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 131708389X

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This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change. It traces the reasons underlying this tendency, the new ways in which it takes form, the possibilities of success and failure of such ventures as well as the risks and benefits it carries. To do so, it examines the theoretical aspects of public participation in constitutional decision-making, offers an analysis of the benefits gained and the problems encountered in countries with long-standing experience in the practice of constitutional referendums, discusses the recent innovative constitution-making processes employed in Iceland and Ireland in the post financial crisis context and probes the use of public participation in the EU context. New modes of deliberation are juxtaposed to traditional direct-democratic processes, while the reasons behind this re-emergence of public involvement narratives are discussed from the aspect of comparative constitutional design. The synthetic chapter offers an overview of the emerging normative and comparative issues and provides a holistic approach of the role of the people in constitutional change in an attempt to answer when, where and how this role may be successfully enhanced. The work consists of material specifically written for this volume, and authored by prominent constitutional scholars and experts in public participation and deliberative processes.

Deliberative Constitution-making

Deliberative Constitution-making
Author: Min Reuchamps
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000955249

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This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy and provides a general overview of what the challenges and prospects of deliberative constitution-making are today. It seeks to provide a more complete picture of what is at stake as a political trend in various places in the world, both theoretically and empirically grounded. Distinctively, the book studies not only established democracies and well-known cases of deliberative constitution-making but also such practices in authoritarian and less consolidated democratic settings and departs from a traditional institutional perspective to have a special focus on actors, and in particular underrepresented groups. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of deliberative democracy, constitutional politics, democratization and autocratization studies, citizen participation and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, social policy and law.

Democratic Constitution Making

Democratic Constitution Making
Author: Vivien Hart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2003
Genre: Constitutional law
ISBN:

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Practical Considerations for Public Participation in Constitution-Building What, When, How and Why?

Practical Considerations for Public Participation in Constitution-Building What, When, How and Why?
Author: Erin C. Houlihan and Sumit Bisarya
Publisher: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 917671439X

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Public participation has become a core element of modern constitution-building. Robust participation is credited with a range of benefits—from improving individual behaviours and attitudes to democracy to shaping elite bargaining dynamics, improving constitutional content, and strengthening outcomes for democracy and peace. Yet it is not well understood whether and how public participation can achieve these ends. Much of what we think we know about participatory constitution-building remains theoretical. No two processes are alike, and there is no agreed definition of what constitutes a ‘participatory process’. Yet national decision-makers must contend with the key question: What does a robust participation process look like for a particular country, at a particular time, in a particular context? What considerations and principles can be derived from comparative experience to guide decisions? This Policy Paper unpacks the forms and functions of public participation across different stages of the constitution-building process and considers the ways in which public engagement can influence the dynamics of the process, including political negotiations.

The Veil of Participation

The Veil of Participation
Author: Alexander Hudson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108840078

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Hudson provides new evidence about the roles of political parties, leaders, and citizen-participants in constitution-making processes.

Distrusting Democrats

Distrusting Democrats
Author: Devra C. Moehler
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472069934

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Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change

Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change
Author: Xenophon Contiades
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2020-06-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351020978

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Comparative constitutional change has recently emerged as a distinct field in the study of constitutional law. It is the study of the way constitutions change through formal and informal mechanisms, including amendment, replacement, total and partial revision, adaptation, interpretation, disuse and revolution. The shift of focus from constitution-making to constitutional change makes sense, since amendment power is the means used to refurbish constitutions in established democracies, enhance their adaptation capacity and boost their efficacy. Adversely, constitutional change is also the basic apparatus used to orchestrate constitutional backslide as the erosion of liberal democracies and democratic regression is increasingly affected through legal channels of constitutional change. Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change provides a comprehensive reference tool for all those working in the field and a thorough landscape of all theoretical and practical aspects of the topic. Coherence from this aspect does not suggest a common view, as the chapters address different topics, but reinforces the establishment of comparative constitutional change as a distinct field. The book brings together the most respected scholars working in the field, and presents a genuine contribution to comparative constitutional studies, comparative public law, political science and constitutional history.

The Politics of Constitutional Change in Industrial Nations

The Politics of Constitutional Change in Industrial Nations
Author: Richard Simeond
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 1985-06-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349069914

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During the last two decades serious attempts to alter basic constitutional structures have taken place in many industrial nations, even in those often thought to have highly stable political institutions. In some cases, such as Belgium and Spain, far-reaching constitutional changes have been put in place; in others advocates of reform have achieved only partial victories or have been entirely frustrated. In all cases, controversy over the constitution has been intense, involving basic conceptions of legitimacy, representation, sovereignty and the purposes of the state. Constitutional politics often reveals much about political life of modern societies that is obscured in day-to-day events. The results of constitutional changes can significantly affect the distribution of power, the ability to manage conflict and the outcomes of policy debates. This book explores the dynamics of constitutional politics through case studies of Spain, Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, West Germany and Eastern Europe, including Poland, prepared by leading students of these countries. Other chapters draw out the more general patterns of constitutional politics, highlighting the pressures which lead to change, and the formidable obstacles confronting them.

Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe

Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe
Author: Min Reuchamps
Publisher: ECPR Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1785522027

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From small-scale experiments, deliberative mini-publics have recently taken a constitutional turn in Europe. Iceland and Ireland have turned to deliberative democracy to reform their constitutions. Estonia, Luxembourg and Romania have also experienced constitutional process in a deliberative mode. In Belgium the G1000, a citizen-led initiative of deliberative democracy, has fostered a wider societal debate about the role and place of citizens in the country's democracy. At the same time, European institutions have introduced different forms of deliberative democracy as a way to connect citizens back in. These empirical cases are emblematic of a possibly constitutional turn in deliberative democracy in Europe. The purpose of this book is to critically assess these developments, bringing together academics involved in the designing of these news forms of constitutional deliberative democracy with the theorists who propagated the ideas and evaluated democratic standards.