Overview
- Employs case studies from around the world to analyze the impact of uncertainty in constitutional design
- Investigates the degree to which decision-makers choose in their own private interest or in the general interest in constitutional design
- Analyses the limits to authority and constitutional power within a democracy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Public Choice (SIPC, volume 32)
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This volume is a very interesting research project that includes the most careful work on constitutional power and limits to authority of which I am aware. In general, the contributors find that constitutional negotiations normally took place in settings where uncertainty was considerable. They also find that the more detailed the characterization of power relationships, the more liberal and durable the democracy tends to be. Roger D. Congleton
This book addresses the issue of the impact of uncertainty in constitutional design. To what extent do constitution drafters and adopters make their decisions behind a veil of ignorance? More fundamentally, can we infer from constitutional texts the degree of uncertainty faced by constitution drafters and adopters? After an introduction (chapter 1), the book proceeds in two parts. The first part (chapters 2 to 4) introduces to the intellectual filiation of the project and to its theoretical and methodological foundations. The second part (chapters 5 to 13) presents nine case studies built on the same structure: historical account of the making of the Constitution, results of the content analysis of the constitutional text, and discussion of specific issues raised in the analysis. Chapter 14 concludes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Behind a Veil of Ignorance?
Book Subtitle: Power and Uncertainty in Constitutional Design
Editors: Louis M. Imbeau, Steve Jacob
Series Title: Studies in Public Choice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14953-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14952-3Published: 20 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36763-7Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14953-0Published: 19 February 2015
Series ISSN: 0924-4700
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 243
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Comparative Politics, International Political Economy