Comparative constitutional design / / [edited by] Tom Ginsburg [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 393 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 342
• Soggetto topico: Constitutional law
• Persona (resp. second.): GinsburgTom
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Design processes: Clearing and strengthening the channels of constitution making / Jon Elster. Does the process of constitutional-making matter? / Justin Blount, Zachary Elkins, and Tom Ginsburg -- How do we get to constitutional design? : constraints and conditions: Democratization and countermajoritarian institutions : power and constitutional design in self-enforcing democracy / Susan Alberts, Chris Warshaw, and Barry R. Weingast. The origins of parliamentary responsibility / Adam Przeworski, Tamar Asadurian, and Anjali Thomas Bohlken. Social foundations of China's living constitution / Randall Peerenboom. The political economy of constitutionalism in a non-secularist world / Ran Hirschl -- Issues in institutional design: Constitutional amendment rules : the denominator problem / Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden. Collective-action federalism : a general theory of Article I, Section 8 / Robert D. Cooter and Neil Seigel. Personal laws and equality : the case of India / Martha C. Nussbaum. Constitutional adjudication, Italian style / John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino. Tyrannophobia / Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermuele. Do executive term limits cause constitutional crises? / Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and James Melton.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together essays by many of the leading scholars of comparative constitutional design from many perspectives to collectively assess what we know - and do not know - about the design process as well as particular institutional choices concerning executive power, constitutional amendment processes and many other issues. Bringing together positive and normative analysis, this volume provides state of the art in a field of growing theoretical and practical importance.
• Titolo autorizzato: Comparative constitutional design
• ISBN: 1-107-23131-0; 1-139-23463-3; 1-280-48576-0; 1-139-23317-3; 9786613580740; 1-139-23096-4; 1-139-22950-8; 1-139-10571-X; 1-139-23240-1; 1-139-23395-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790004603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Comparative constitutional law and policy.