Overview

Democratic design is increasingly seen as the key to crafting stability in the fragile states of the developing world. Getting the democratic institutions right may not guarantee success but getting them wrong has led to violent collapse in many socially divided states. The Architecture of Democracy brings together both theory and case study evidence to provide the reader with an excellent overview of the cutting edge of academic debate and its practical implications for democratic design in the 21st century.The discipline of constitutional engineering reached maturity in the 1990s with theories of ethnic polarization and democratic conflict management being applied in trouble spots across the globe. Andrew Reynolds brings together the leading lights of the discipline to discuss the successes and failures of constitutional design. The two icons of modern constitutional design, Arend Lijphart and Donald Horowitz, lead off by debating their own contributions to the field. Then Olga Shvetsova, Timothy Frye, and José Antônio Cheibub, present important new evidence from Europe, the Central and Eastern Europe/Asia, and Latin America. Steven Solnick, Yash Ghai, Pippa Norris, and Rein Taagepera analyze the effects of presdential and parliamentary systems, issues of federalism and autonomy, and the varying impact of electoral systems. The book concludes with Brij Lal's case study of Fiji, Brendan O'Leary on Northern Ireland, Bereket Habte Selassie on Eritrea, William Liddle on Indonesia, Rotimi Suburu and Larry Diamond on Nigeria, and David Stuligross and Ashutosh Varshney on India. The Architecture of Democracy is the culmination of the study of constitutional engineering in the third wave of democracy and sets parameters for this crucial research as democracy diffuses across the world.

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Author:   Andrew Reynolds (, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.962kg
ISBN:  

9780199246458

ISBN 10:   0199246459
Pages:   530
Publication Date:   14 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Institutional Design in Divided Societies: An Overview Katharine Belmont, Scott Mainwaring, and Andrew Reynolds: Introduction Institutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy in Divided Societies 1: Donald L. Horowitz: 1. Constitutional Design and the Problem of adoption: Proposals versus Processes 2: Arend Lijphart: The Wave of Power Sharing Democracy 3: Olga Shvetsova: Institutions and Coalition-Building in Post-Communist Transitions Part II: Presidentialism, Federalism and Decentralization, and Electoral Systems. 4: Timothy Frye: Presidents, Parliaments and Democracy: Insights from the Post-Communist World 5: José Antônio Cheibub: Presidentialism and Democratic Performance 6: Yash Ghai: Constitutional asymmetries: Communal Representation, Federalism, and Cultural Autonomy 7: Steven L. Solnick: Federalism and State-Building: Post-Communist and Post-Colonial Perspectives 8: Pippa Norris: Ballots not Bullets: Testing Consociational Theories of Ethnic Conflict, Electoral Systems and Democratization 9: Rein Taagepera: Designing Electoral Rules and Waiting for an Electoral System to Evolve Part III: Country Studies 10: Brij V. Lal: 10. Constitutional Engineering in Fiji 11: Brendan O'Leary: The British-Irish Agreement of 1998: Results and Prospects 12: Bereket Habte Selassie: The Eritrean Experience in Constitution Making: The Dialectic of Process and Substance 13: R. William Liddle: Indonesia's Democratic Transition: Playing By the Rules 14: Rotimi Subu and Larry Diamond: Institutional Design, Ethnic Conflict Management, and Democracy in Nigeria 15: David Stuligross and Ashutosh Varshney: India

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These essays provide a sample and overview of the current state of debate linking institutional design to democratic durability. Democratization

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