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Gene Callahan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Roger D Congleton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • improving democracy through Constitutional Reform some swedish lessons
    2012
    Co-Authors: Roger D Congleton
    Abstract:

    Preface. 1. The Course of Reform. I: Constitutional Interests. 2. The Nature of Constitutions. Laws for Making Laws. 3. An Overview of Swedish Constitutional History. 4. Ideas and Interests in Constitution Reform. 5. The Consequences of Constitutional Reform. 6. Governance under Constraints. II: Perfecting Parliament. 7. Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Design. 8. Essential Procedural Methods and Constraints for Parliament. 9. Constraining Parliamentary Democracy to Advance the Majority's Interest. 10. Organizing Governance to Broaden Consensus: Beyond Majority Rule. III: Swedish Lessons. 11. Appraising the Performance of the Swedish Constitution. 12. Constitutional Reforms of the 1970s and the Performance of Swedish Governance: Statistical Evidence. 13. Improving the Swedish Constitution. 14. Lessons Learned. References: Books. Articles. Data Appendices: A. Economic Data. B. Political Data. Index.

  • perfecting parliament Constitutional Reform liberalism and the rise of western democracy
    2010
    Co-Authors: Roger D Congleton
    Abstract:

    1. On the origins of Western democracy 2. Team production, organization, and governance 3. Organizational governance in the long run 4. The origins of territorial governance 5. Constitutional exchange and divided governance 6. The power of the purse and Constitutional Reform 7. Suffrage without democracy 8. Ideology, interest groups, and adult suffrage 9. Setting the stage: philosophical, economic and political developments prior to the nineteenth century 10. Liberalism and Reform in the transformative century 11. Fine-grained Constitutional bargaining 12. An overview of British Constitutional history: the English king and the medieval parliament 13. Constitutional exchange in England: from the Glorious Revolution to universal suffrage 14. The Swedish transition to democracy 15. Constitutional Reform in the Netherlands: from republic to kingdom, to parliamentary democracy 16. Germany: Constitutional exchange in an emerging state during the nineteenth century 17. The Japanese transition to democracy and back 18. The United States, an exception or further illustration? 19. Quantitative evidence of gradual Reform 20. Ideas, interests, and Constitutional Reform Appendix: methodological approach, limits, and extensions.

A. Magolowondo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Constitutional Reform processes and political parties: principles for practice - Constitutional Reform processes and political parties: principles for practice
    2012
    Co-Authors: M. Van Vliet, W. Wahiu, A. Magolowondo
    Abstract:

    This publication provides a set of guiding principles for Constitutional Reform on the basis of practical experiences of Constitutional Reform processes in selected countries: Bolivia, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The focus is on the role of political parties in constitution-building processes. The publication shows that although country-specific Reform processes may be unique in terms of objectives, context, popular involvement, and achievements, they go through similar phases: preparatory, consultative, drafting, and implementation. All cases illustrate the political nature of Constitutional Reform and the central role of political parties in the process. [ASC Leiden abstract]

  • Constitutional Reform processes and political parties principles for practice
    2012
    Co-Authors: M. Van Vliet, W. Wahiu, A. Magolowondo
    Abstract:

    This publication provides a set of guiding principles for Constitutional Reform on the basis of practical experiences of Constitutional Reform processes in selected countries: Bolivia, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The focus is on the role of political parties in constitution-building processes. The publication shows that although country-specific Reform processes may be unique in terms of objectives, context, popular involvement, and achievements, they go through similar phases: preparatory, consultative, drafting, and implementation. All cases illustrate the political nature of Constitutional Reform and the central role of political parties in the process. [ASC Leiden abstract]

Domenico Da Empoli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Nadirsyah Hosen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • shari a and Constitutional Reform in indonesia
    2007
    Co-Authors: Nadirsyah Hosen
    Abstract:

    This book focuses on Constitutional Reform in Indonesia (1999-2002) from the perspective of shari'a. Since the end of Soeharto's New Order government in 1998, Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, has amended the 1945 Constitution four times. Soeharto's departure also opened the way for several Muslim groups and political parties to propose the introduction of shari'a into the Constitution. This book poses the crucial question implicit in the amendments to the 1945 Constitution: can shari'a and democratic Constitutionalism be fused without compromising on human rights, the rule of law, and religious liberty?The contributions of Islamic political parties in Indonesia to the process and the outcome of the amendments, by adopting a substantive shari'a approach, reflect the ability to deal with a modern Constitution without abandoning the principles and the objectives of shari'a. The study reveals one possible picture of how Islam and Constitutionalism can co-exist in the same vision, not without risk of tension, but with the possibility of success.

  • CAN THE MUSLIM WORLD BORROW FROM INDONESIAN Constitutional Reform? A Comparative Constitutional Approach
    JOURNAL OF INDONESIAN ISLAM, 2007
    Co-Authors: Nadirsyah Hosen
    Abstract:

    This paper attempts to analytically examine the possibility of Constitutional borrowing for the Muslim world regardless the differences in history, system, culture, language, and cha­racteristics. It discusses this issue by looking at the arguments put forth by the oppo­nents of comparative cons­titutional interpre­tation and their counter arguments. It will consider materials from Canada, USA, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hungary, taking the position that Constitutional borrowing can be justified. The paper argues that the 1999-2002 Indonesian Constitutional Reform should be taken into account by other Muslim countries in undertaking their Constitutional Reform. The substantive approach of the Shari ‘ah that has been used in Indonesia has shown that Muslim world can Reform its constitutions without the “assistance” of Western foreign policy. Indo­nesian Constitutional Reform has demonstrated that Islamic Constitutionalism comes from within Islamic teaching and the Islamic community itself; it is a home grown product.