constitutional design, conflict management, and democracy /
edited by Andrew Reynolds.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
1 online resource (xxii, 507 pages) :
illustrations, map
Oxford studies in democratization
Based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Notre Dame, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : institutional design, conflict management, and democracy / Katharine Belmont, Scott Mainwaring, and Andrew Reynolds -- Constitutional design : proposals versus processes / Donald L. Horowitz -- The wave of power-sharing democracy / Arend Lijphart -- Institutions and coalition-building in post-communist transitions / Olga Shvetsova -- Presidents, parliaments, and democracy : insights from the post-communist world / Timothy Frye -- Presidentialism and democratic performance / José Antonio Cheibub -- Constitutional asymmetries : communal representation, federalism, and cultural autonomy / Yash Pal Ghai -- Federalism and state-building : post-communist and post-colonial perspectives / Steven L. Solnick -- Ballots not bullets : testing consociational theories of ethnic conflict, electoral systems, and democratization / Pippa Norris -- Designing electoral rules and waiting for an electoral system to evolve / Rein Taagepera -- Constitutional engineering in post-coup Fiji / Brij V. Lal -- The Belfast Agreement and the British-Irish Agreement : consociation, confederal institutions, a federacy, and a peace process / Brendan O'Leary -- The Eritrean experience in constitution making : the dialectic of process and substance / Bereket Habte Selassie -- Indonesia's democratic transition : playing by the rules / R. William Liddle -- Institutional design, ethnic conflict management, and democracy in Nigeria / Rotimi T. Suberu and Larry Diamond -- Ethnic diversities, constitutional designs, and public policies in India / David Stuligross and Ashutosh Varshney.
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This text discusses the successes and failures of constitutional design. Chapters analyse the effect of presidential and parliamentary systems, federalism and autonomy, and electoral systems.
Architecture of democracy.
Comparative government, Congresses.
Democracy, Congresses.
Democratization, Congresses.
Comparative government.
Democracy.
Democratisering.
Democratization.
Grondwetten.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.