The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy (Oxford Studies in Democratization)

✍ Scribed by Andrew Reynolds (editor)

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 530
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this fascinating exploration of democracy, Reynolds assembles prominent scholars to discuss the successes and failures of constitutional design. Chapters analyze the effects of presidential and parliamentary systems, issues of federalism and autonomy, and the varying impact of electoral systems, concluding with notable case studies of Fiji, Ireland, Eritrea, Indonesia, Nigeria, and India. The culmination of the study of constitutional engineering in the third wave of democracy, this important work sets parameters for crucial research as democracy diffuses across the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Introduction: Institutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy
I: Institutional Design in Divided Societies: An Overview
1. Constitutional Design: Proposals versus Processes
2. The Wave of Power-Sharing Democracy
3. Institutions and Coalition-Building in Post-Communist Transitions
II: Presidentialism, Federalism and Decentralization, and Electoral Systems
4. Presidents, Parliaments, and Democracy: Insights from the Post-Communist World
5. Presidentialism and Democratic Performance
6. Constitutional Asymmetries: Communal Representation, Federalism, and Cultural Autonomy
7. Federalism and State-Building: Post-Communist and Post-Colonial Perspectives
8. Ballots Not Bullets: Testing Consociational Theories of Ethnic Conflict, Electoral Systems, and Democratization
9. Designing Electoral Rules and Waiting for an Electoral System
III: Country Studies
10. Constitutional Engineering in Post-Coup Fiji
11. The Belfast Agreement and the British-Irish Agreement: Consociation, Confederal Institutions, a Federacy, and a Peace Process
12. The Eritrean Experience in Constitution Making: The Dialectic of Process and Substance
13. Indonesia's Democratic Transition: Playing by the Rules
14. Institutional Design, Ethnic Conflict Management, and Democracy in Nigeria
15. Ethnic Diversities, Constitutional Designs, and Public Policies in India
References
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