Constitutional processes and democratic commitment / Donald L. Horowitz.
Enhancing prospects for democracy is an important objective in the process of creating a new constitution. Donald L. Horowitz argues that constitutional processes ought to be geared to securing commitment to democracy by those who participate in constitutional processes. Using evidence from numerous...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.
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Table of Contents:
- The goals of constitutional processes
- Knowledge, history, and visibility
- Starting conditions
- The forum and the method
- Inclusion and consensus
- Consensus, compromise, clarity, and coherence
- External advice and the participation imperative
- Consensus and defection : the case of Sri Lanka
- Shaping a process
- Processes, good and not so good.