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The Architecture of Democracy

Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy

Reynolds, Andrew (Editor), Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Print publication date: 2002
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924646-5
doi:10.1093/0199246467.001.0001

Abstract: This book, comprising papers contributed to a conference entitled Constitutional Design 2000 and held at the University of Notre Dame in December 1999, brings together the views of the leading academic specialists on the theory of effective democratization, and of the institutional design tasks involved.

Keywords: democratization

Table of Contents

Preface

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Introduction: Institutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy

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I. Institutional Design in Divided Societies: An Overview

1. Constitutional Design: Proposals Versus Processes

2. The Wave of Power-Sharing Democracy

3. Institutions and Coalition Building in Post-Communist Transitions

II. Presidentialism, Federalism and Decentralization, and Electoral Systems

4. Presidents, Parliaments, and Democracy: Insights from the Post-Communist World

5. Presidentialism and Democratic Performance

6. Constitutional Asymmetries: Communal Representation, Federalism, and Cultural Autonomy

7. Federalism and State-Building: Post-Communist and Post-Colonial Perspectives

8. Ballots not Bullets: Testing Consociational Theories of Ethnic Conflict, Electoral Systems, and Democratization

9. Designing Electoral Rules and Waiting for an Electoral System to Evolve

III. Country Studies

10. Constitutional Engineering in Post-Coup Fiji

11. The Belfast Agreement and the British-Irish Agreement: Consociation, Confederal Institutions, a Federacy, and a Peace Process

12. The Eritrean Experience in Constitution Making: The Dialectic of Process and Substance

13. Indonesia's Democratic Transition: Playing by the Rules

14. Institutional Design, Ethnic Conflict Management, and Democracy in Nigeria

15. Ethnic Diversities, Constitutional Designs, and Public Policies in India

Bibliography

Index

doi:10.1093/0199246467.001.0001