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The Architecture of Democracy : Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Studies in Democratization SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (530 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191529856
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Architecture of DemocracyDDC classification:
  • 321.8
LOC classification:
  • JC421.A73 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This volume brings together leading scholars in the discipline to discuss the critical theme of the successes and failures of constitutional design. Leading lights of the discipline, Arend Lijphart and Donald Horowitz, debate their own contributions to the field. Emerging scholars then present important new evidence from Europe, the CIS, Latin America, and Africa. Chapters analyse the effect of presidential and parliamentary systems, issues of federalism and autonomy, and the varying impact of electoral systems. The book concludes with case studies of Fiji, Ireland, Eritrea, Indonesia, Nigeria, and India.
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Intro -- Preface -- 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This volume brings together leading scholars in the discipline to discuss the critical theme of the successes and failures of constitutional design. Leading lights of the discipline, Arend Lijphart and Donald Horowitz, debate their own contributions to the field. Emerging scholars then present important new evidence from Europe, the CIS, Latin America, and Africa. Chapters analyse the effect of presidential and parliamentary systems, issues of federalism and autonomy, and the varying impact of electoral systems. The book concludes with case studies of Fiji, Ireland, Eritrea, Indonesia, Nigeria, and India.

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