Comparative constitutional design - Ginsburg, Tom (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Constitutional law