Does the process of constitution-making matter?

Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 201-223

  Ginsburg, Tom ^a   Elkins, Zachary ^b   Blount, Justin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative politics; Constitutions; Deliberation; Democracy; Institutional design

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249128487     PISSN: 15503585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.4.110707.172247     Document Type: Article

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