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Details for article 79 of 144 found articles
| Title: |
How important are new constitutions for democratic consolidation? Lessons from the post-communist states |
| Author: |
Stanger, Allison |
| Appeared in: |
Democratization |
| Paging: | Volume 11 (2004) nr. 3 pages 1-26 |
| Year: |
2004-06 |
| Contents: |
This article examines the conventional wisdom that an early legal break with the past is critical for democratic consolidation and finds it to be problematic. The post-communist cases in central east Europe demonstrate that the liberal formula of free and fair elections followed by the ratification of a new constitution is not always desirable and may be sub-optimal when state sovereignty has not recently undergone redefinition. Since both semi-presidential and parliamentarian constitutions have framed stable democracies in the region, the research also indicates that the form a constitution ultimately takes is probably less important than the process that produces it. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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