constitutional design, conflict management, and democracy /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Andrew Reynolds.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xxii, 507 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, map
SERIES
Series Title
Oxford studies in democratization
GENERAL NOTES
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Based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Notre Dame, 1999.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Architecture of democracy.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Comparative government, Congresses.
Democracy, Congresses.
Democratization, Congresses.
Comparative government.
Democracy.
Democratisering.
Democratization.
Grondwetten.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.