From parchment to practice :: implementing new constitutions /: edited by Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq.

Name: From parchment to practice : implementing new constitutions / edited by Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq.
ISBN: 9781108767859

Ginsburg, Tom,; Huq, Aziz Z.,

From parchment to practice : implementing new constitutions / edited by Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq.

From Parchment to Practice: Implementing New Constitutions (Conference) (2017 : University of Chicago Law School); Ginsburg, Tom, editor.; Huq, Aziz Z., editor.

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From Parchment to Practice: Implementing New Constitutions (Conference) (2017 : University of Chicago Law School)

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From parchment to practice : implementing new constitutions / edited by Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq.

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Ginsburg, Tom, editor.
Huq, Aziz Z., editor.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Series

Comparative constitutional law and policy.

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Introduction : The First-Period Problem of Constitutional Implementation / Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq
Looking "Backward" or "Forward" to American Constitutional Development :
Reflections on Constitutional "Endurance" and "Adaptation" in the "First Republic" / Sanford Levinson
Marking Constitutional Transitions : The Law and Politics of Constitutional
Implementation in South Africa / Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux
India's First Period : Constitutional Doctrine and Constitutional Stability /
Madhav Khosla
Two Steps "Forward", One Step "Back"? : Transformation and Correction in the Implementation of Ecuador's 2008 Constitution / Eric Alston
The Long Road Ahead : The First Period of a Gender-Responsive Constitution in Zimbabwe / Claudia Flores
Constitutional Reform and Women's Political Participation : Electoral Gender
Quotas in Post-Arab Spring Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan / Susan H. Williams
Explaining the Institutional Role of the Colombian Constitutional Court /
Diego González
Implementing a New Constitution in a Competitive Authoritarian Context : The Case of Kenya / James Thuo Gathii
Transformational Authoritarian Constitutions : The Case of Chile /
Tom Ginsburg
Authoritarian Straitjacket or Vehicle for Democratic Transition? : The Risky
Struggle to Change Myanmar's Constitution / Melissa Crouch
The Ethiopian Constitution and Ethnic Federalism / Daniel Abebe.

Summary

From Parchment to Practice explores the set of problems that arise when a new constitution has been adopted. All new constitutions must manage a balance or tension between two forces: aspirations for social and political transformation on the one hand and demands for preservation of old interests and institutions on the other. The period following the initial adoption of a new constitution, is the conceptual, temporal, and institutional bridge between the past and future. It is the moment when the transformative and the preservative forces in constitutional design can come into the sharpest conflict. Through a series of case studies, this volume analyzes the variable nature of these type of conflicts - and the diverse means through which they are mediated, whether successfully or not.

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