Constituent assemblies

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Label

Constituent assemblies

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jon Elster [and three others]

Contributor

• Elster, Jon, 1940-

Editor

• Elster, Jon, 1940-

Subject

• Comparative law
• Constitutional conventions
• Constitutional history

Language

eng

Summary

Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus came from the study of the American and French constituent assemblies in the late eighteenth century, this volume exemplifies the large comparative scope of current research. The contributors discuss constituent assemblies in South East Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, and in Nordic countries. Among the new insights they provide is a better understanding of how constituent assemblies may fail, either by not producing a document at all or by adopting a constitution that fails to serve as a neutral framework for ordinary politics. In a theoretical afterword, Jon Elster, an inspirational thinker on the current topic, offers an analysis of the micro-foundations of constitution-making, with special emphasis on the role of crises-generated passions

Member of

• Comparative constitutional law and policy

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

K3161

LC item number

.C663 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Comparative constitutional law and policy