| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 507 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford studies in democratization
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Oxford studies in democratization.
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| Note |
Based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Notre Dame, 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : institutional design, conflict management, and democracy / Katharine Belmont, Scott Mainwaring, and Andrew Reynolds -- Constitutional design : proposals versus processes / Donald L. Horowitz -- The wave of power-sharing democracy / Arend Lijphart -- Institutions and coalition-building in post-communist transitions / Olga Shvetsova -- Presidents, parliaments, and democracy : insights from the post-communist world / Timothy Frye -- Presidentialism and democratic performance / José Antonio Cheibub -- Constitutional asymmetries : communal representation, federalism, and cultural autonomy / Yash Pal Ghai -- Federalism and state-building : post-communist and post-colonial perspectives / Steven L. Solnick -- Ballots not bullets : testing consociational theories of ethnic conflict, electoral systems, and democratization / Pippa Norris -- Designing electoral rules and waiting for an electoral system to evolve / Rein Taagepera -- Constitutional engineering in post-coup Fiji / Brij V. Lal -- The Belfast Agreement and the British-Irish Agreement : consociation, confederal institutions, a federacy, and a peace process / Brendan O'Leary -- The Eritrean experience in constitution making : the dialectic of process and substance / Bereket Habte Selassie -- Indonesia's democratic transition : playing by the rules / R. William Liddle -- Institutional design, ethnic conflict management, and democracy in Nigeria / Rotimi T. Suberu and Larry Diamond -- Ethnic diversities, constitutional designs, and public policies in India / David Stuligross and Ashutosh Varshney. |
| Summary |
This text discusses the successes and failures of constitutional design. Chapters analyse the effect of presidential and parliamentary systems, federalism and autonomy, and electoral systems. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comparative government -- Congresses.
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Comparative government. |
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Democracy -- Congresses.
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Democracy. |
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Democratization -- Congresses.
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Democratization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Reynolds, Andrew, 1967-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Architecture of democracy. Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2001052058 |
| ISBN |
9780191529856 (electronic book) |
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0191529850 (electronic book) |
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9780191600135 (ebook) |
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019160013X (ebook) |
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9780199246465 |
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0199246467 |
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0199246459 |
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0199246467 (paperback) |
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9780199246458 |
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