Comparative constitutional design / [edited by] Tom Ginsburg. - xi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Comparative constitutional law and policy . - Comparative constitutional law and policy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Design processes: Clearing and strengthening the channels of constitution making / Does the process of constitutional-making matter? / How do we get to constitutional design? : constraints and conditions: Democratization and countermajoritarian institutions : power and constitutional design in self-enforcing democracy / The origins of parliamentary responsibility / Social foundations of China's living constitution / The political economy of constitutionalism in a non-secularist world / Issues in institutional design: Constitutional amendment rules : the denominator problem / Collective-action federalism : a general theory of Article I, Section 8 / Personal laws and equality : the case of India / Constitutional adjudication, Italian style / Tyrannophobia / Do executive term limits cause constitutional crises? / Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, and James Melton. Jon Elster. Justin Blount, Zachary Elkins, and Tom Ginsburg -- Susan Alberts, Chris Warshaw, and Barry R. Weingast. Adam Przeworski, Tamar Asadurian, and Anjali Thomas Bohlken. Randall Peerenboom. Ran Hirschl -- Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden. Robert D. Cooter and Neil Seigel. Martha C. Nussbaum. John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino. Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermuele.

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Constitutional law.