This volume contains a selection of essays drawn from a major scholarly project undertaken by the American Council of Learned Societies. The ACLS hosted symposia around the world in order to broaden and stimulate the field of comparative constitutionalism. That effort brought together scholars and political actors from many countries and every region of the world to discuss the experiences of constitutionalism. Twenty-five papers were selected to represent the range and depth of possibility for serious constitutional analysis. With the staggering changes in Eastern Europe and much of the rest of the world, constitutionalism has become one of the most important phenomena in the modern world. The essays in this book represent the very best work being done throughout the world on that important topic.
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This volume contains a selection of essays drawn from a major scholarly project undertaken by the American Council of Learned Societies. The ACLS hosted symposia around the world in order to broaden and stimulate the field of comparative constitutionalism. That effort brought together scholars and political actors from many countries and every region of the world to discuss the experiences of constitutionalism. Twenty-five papers were selected to represent the range and depth of possibility for serious constitutional analysis. With the staggering changes in Eastern Europe and much of the rest of the world, constitutionalism has become one of the most important phenomena in the modern world. The essays in this book represent the very best work being done throughout the world on that important topic.
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This volume contains a selection of essays drawn from a major scholarly project undertaken by the American Council of Learned Societies. The ACLS hosted symposia around the world in order to broaden and stimulate the field of comparative constitutionalism. That effort brought together scholars and political actors from many countries and every region of the world to discuss the experiences of constitutionalism. Twenty-five papers were selected to represent the range and depth of possibility for serious constitutional analysis. With the staggering changes in Eastern Europe and much of the rest of the world, constitutionalism has become one of the most important phenomena in the modern world. The essays in this book represent the very best work being done throughout the world on that important topic.
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• Transitions
• Constitutions, Constitutionalism, and Democracy / Walter F. Murphy
• Constitutionalism in Europe Since 1945: Reconstruction and Reappraisal / Nevil Johnson
• Transition to Democracy, Corporatism, and Presidentialism with Special Reference to Latin America / Carlos Santiago Nino
• Constitutions Without Constitutionalism: Reflections on an African Political Paradox / H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo
• Human Rights
• Human Rights in Constitutional Order and in Political Practice in Latin America / Hugo E. Fruhling
• The National Question, Secession and Constitutionalism: The Mediation of Competing Claims to Self-Determination / Abdullahi An-Na'im
• European Courts and Human Rights / Ludger Kuhnhardt
• Social Movements, Constitutionalism, and Human Rights: Comments from the Malaysian and Indonesian Experiences / Daniel S. Lev
• Pluralism and Nationalism
• Uses and Usurpation of Constitutional Ideology / Radhika Coomeraswamy
• Social Movements and Constitutionalism: The African Context / Mahmood Mamdani
• The Theory of the State in the Third World and the Problematics of Constitutionalism / Yash Ghai
• Constitutionalism and The Nationalist Discourse: The Indian Experience / Tapan Raychaudhuri
• Institutional Arrangements
• Reconstructing Political Space: Militarism and Constitutionalism in Africa / Eboe Hutchful
• Providing for the Common Defense: What Latin American Constitutions Have to Say About The Region's Armed Forces / Juan Rial.

This volume contains a selection of essays drawn from a major scholarly project undertaken by the American Council of Learned Societies. The ACLS hosted symposia around the world in order to broaden and stimulate the field of comparative constitutionalism. That effort brought together scholars and political actors from many countries and every region of the world to discuss the experiences of constitutionalism. Twenty-five papers were selected to represent the range and depth of possibility for serious constitutional analysis. With the staggering changes in Eastern Europe and much of the rest of the world, constitutionalism has become one of the most important phenomena in the modern world. The essays in this book represent the very best work being done throughout the world on that important topic.
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• Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction-- Lars Rudebeck and Olle Tornquist PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON DEVELOPMENT, DEMOCRATISATION, AND CIVIL SOCIETY Some Reflections on 'Civil Society' and Political Change-- Peter Gibbon Modernity, Late Development and Civil Society-- Nicos Mouzelis PART II: THE CASE OF SWEDEN AS AN EARLY HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE In Search of Respectability. Popular Movements in Scandinavian Democratisation: From Voluntary Associations to Mass Organisations-- Lars Pettersson PART III: ASIAN EXPERIENCES Making Democratisation Work: From Civil Society and Social Capital to Political Inclusion and Politicisation. Theoretical Reflections on Concrete Cases in Indonesia, Kerala, and the Philippines-- Olle Tornquist Socio-Religious Reform Movements, Process of Democratisation, and Human Development: The Case of Kerala, South-West India-- P.K. Michael Tharakan Decentralisation, NGOs and Democratisation in Bangladesh-- Kirsten Westergaard Development, NGOs and Civil Society-- Karina Constantino-David PART IV: AFRICAN EXPERIENCES Popular Sovereignty and Constitutionalism: An Historical and Comparative Perspective-- Lars Rudebeck When Will Independence End?: Democratisation and Civil Society in Rural Africa-- Abdul Raufu Mustapha Scholars and Democratic Politics in Nigeria-- Bjorn Beckman and Attahiur M. Jega Township Organisation, Democracy, and Women's Rights in Zambia-- Ann Schlyter PART V: LATIN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Governance and Democratisation in Post-Pinochet Chile-- Bosco Parra Index.
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Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against the background of theoretical introductions and comparisons with the Swedish historical experience of democratization. The authors, from four different continents, examine civil society and its relation to the state throughout the world and assess prospects for sustainable democratization.
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• Electoral processes in emerging democracies / Poul Nielson
• Early elections in transitional politics / Joel D. Barkan
• Electoral systems in Eastern Europe: genesis, critique, reform / Dieter Nohlen
• The tailor of Marrakesh: Western electoral systems advice to emerging democracies / Rein Taagepera
• "A period of enhanced surprise, disappointment, and frustration"?: the introduction of a new electoral system in New Zealand / Nigel S. Roberts
• Constituency elements within proportional representation systems and the electoral reform debate in South Africa / Michael Krennerich and Jacques de Ville
• The case for democratic hope in Africa / Andrew Reynolds
• Elections and electoral systems in Africa: purposes, problems, and prospects / Amare Tekle
• Salient features of Tanzania's 1995 general elections / Rwekaza S. Mukandala
• Establishment of democratic and representative electoral systems in emerging democracies: the case of Zambia / Alfred M. Zulu.

• Introduction: rethinking the future of representative democracy Sonia Alonso, John Keane and Wolfgang Merkel--
• 1. Representative democracy and its critics Nadia Urbinati--
• 2. Representative democracy and the populist temptation Klaus von Beyme--
• 3. The wider canvas: representation and democracy in state and society Michael Saward--
• 4. Performance and deficits of present-day representation Bernhard Wessels--
• 5. Do parliaments have a future? David Beetham--
• 6. Engendering representative democracy Drude Dahlerup--
• 7. Representative democracy and the multinational demos Sonia Alonso--
• 8. Diagnosing and designing democracy in Europe Philippe C. Schmitter--
• 9. Monitory democracy? John Keane--
• 10. Representing nature Robyn Eckersley--
• 11. Democracy and representation beyond the nation state Michael Zurn and Gregor Walter-Drop.
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The Future of Representative Democracy poses important questions about representation, representative democracy and their future. Inspired by the last major investigation of the subject by Hanna Pitkin over four decades ago, this ambitious volume fills a major gap in the literature by examining the future of representative forms of democracy in terms of present-day trends and past theories of representative democracy. Aware of the pressing need for clarifying key concepts and institutional trends, the volume aims to break down barriers among disciplines and to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars. The contributors emphasise that representative democracy and its future is a subject of pressing scholarly concern and public importance. Paying close attention to the unfinished, two-centuries-old relationship between democracy and representation, this book offers a fresh perspective on current problems and dilemmas of representative democracy and the possible future development of new forms of democratic representation.
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One of the most important aims of the United Nations' programme of Reinventing Government is to promote good governance towards the realization of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals This book constitutes the first attempt to link the MDGs to the important concept of governance. As such, it delineates the theoretical and empirical links between policy making and sound governance while at the same time contributing to the debate on democratic governance. Publishing Agency: United Nations.
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• Zur Geschichte von Konsens- und Mehrheitsprinzip / Hans Hattenhauer
• Zur Stabilität von Konsens und zur Stabilisierung durch Konsens / Günter Jakobs
• Konsens als Quelle richtigen Rechts / Wolfgang Naucke
• Konsens und Mehrheitsprinzip im Grundgesetz und in der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts / Ernst Benda
• Konsens im Völkerrecht / Rüdiger Wolfrum
• Sozialer Wandel und Konsens, zur Legitimationsproblematik des Mehrheitsprinzips / Heinz Sahner
• Konsenspflicht aus ökonomischer Sicht, die liberale Alternative / Roland Vaubel
• Die Grenzen der Demokratie / Werner Kaltefleiter
• The majority principle and consensus in the British constitutional tradition / Nevil Johnson.