Constitutionalism and a Right to Effective Government?

280 Pages·2022·1.352 MB·English

by  Vicki C. Jackson (editor), Yasmin Dawood (editor)

constitutionalism and a right to effective
government?
Nations around the world are facing various crises of ineffective government. Basic
governmentalfunctions–protectingrights,preventingviolence,andpromotingmaterial
well-being–arecompromised,leadingtodeclinesingeneralwelfare,intheenjoyment
ofrights,andevenindemocracyitself.Thisinnovativecollection,featuringanalysesby
leaders in the fields of constitutional law and politics, highlights the essential role of
effective government in sustaining democratic constitutionalism. The book explores
“effective government” as a right, principle, duty, and interest, situating questions of
governance in debates about negative and positive constitutionalism. In addition to
providing new conceptual approaches to the connections between rights and govern-
ance, the volume also provides novel insights into government institutions, including
courts, legislatures, executives, and administrative bodies, as well as the media and
politicalparties.Thisisanessentialvolumeforanyoneinterestedinconstitutionalism,
comparativelaw,governance,democracy,theruleoflaw,andrights.
VickiC.JacksonisLaurenceH.TribeProfessorofConstitutionalLawatHarvardLaw
School. She has written widely on comparative and US constitutional law, in works
including Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era (2010), Comparative
Constitutional Law (with Mark Tushnet, 3d. ed. 2014), and Defining the Field of
ComparativeConstitutionalLaw(withMarkTushnet,2002).
YasminDawoodistheCanadaResearchChairinDemocracy,Constitutionalism,and
ElectoralLaw,andAssociateProfessorattheFacultyofLaw,UniversityofToronto.She
alsoholdsanappointmentin theDepartment ofPolitical Science.Shehaspublished
widely on voting rights, comparative election law, and the theory and practice of
democraticconstitutionalism.
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COMPARATIVECONSTITUTIONALLAWANDPOLICY
SeriesEditors
TomGinsburgUniversityofChicago
ZacharyElkinsUniversityofTexasatAustin
RanHirschlUniversityofToronto
Comparative constitutional law is an intellectually vibrant field that encompasses an
increasingly broad array of approaches and methodologies. This series collects analytically
innovative and empirically grounded work from scholars of comparative constitutionalism
across academic disciplines. Books in the series include theoretically informed studies of
singleconstitutionaljurisdictions,comparativestudiesofconstitutionallawandinstitutions,
andeditedcollectionsoforiginalessaysthatrespondtochallengingtheoreticalandempirical
questionsinthefield.
BooksintheSeries
ConstitutionalismandaRighttoEffectiveGovernment?
EditedbyVickiC.JacksonandYasminDawood
TheFalloftheArabSpring:Democracy’sChallengesandEffortstoReconstitutetheMiddle
East
TofighMaboudi
FilteringPopulistClaimstoFightPopulism:TheItalianCaseinaComparativePerspective
GiuseppeMartinico
ConstitutionalisminContext
EditedbyDavidS.Law
TheNewFourthBranch:InstitutionsforProtectingConstitutionalDemocracy
MarkTushnet
TheVeilofParticipation:CitizensandPoliticalPartiesinConstitution-MakingProcesses
AlexanderHudson
ToweringJudges:AComparativeStudyofConstitutionalJudges
EditedbyRehanAbeyratneandIddoPorat
TheConstitutionofArbitration
VictorFerreresComella
RedraftingConstitutionsinDemocraticOrders:TheoreticalandComparativePerspectives
EditedbyGabrielL.Negretto
FromParchmenttoPractice:ImplementingNewConstitutions
EditedbyTomGinsburgandAzizZ.Huq
TheFailureofPopularConstitutionMakinginTurkey:RegressingTowardsConstitutional
Autocracy
EditedbyFelixPetersenandZeynepYanas¸mayan
AQualifiedHope:TheIndianSupremeCourtandProgressiveSocialChange
EditedbyGeraldN.Rosenberg,SudhirKrishnaswamy,andShishirBail
ReconstructingRights:Courts,Parties,andEqualityRightsinIndia,SouthAfrica,andthe
UnitedStates
StephanStohler
ConstitutionsinTimesofFinancialCrisis
EditedbyTomGinsburg,MarkD.Rosen,andGeorgVanberg
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HybridConstitutionalism:ThePoliticsofConstitutionalReviewintheChineseSpecial
AdministrativeRegions
EricC.Ip
Constitution-MakingandTransnationalLegalOrder
EditedbyTomGinsburg,TerenceC.Halliday,andGregoryShaffer
TheInvisibleConstitutioninComparativePerspective
EditedbyRosalindDixonandAdrienneStone
ThePolitico-LegalDynamicsofJudicialReview:AComparativeAnalysis
TheunisRoux
ConstitutionalCourtsinAsia:AComparativePerspective
EditedbyAlbertH.Y.ChenandAndrewHarding
JudicialReviewinNorway:ABicentennialDebate
AnineKierulf
ConstituentAssemblies
EditedbyJonElster,RobertoGargarella,VatsalNaresh,andBjornErikRasch
TheDNAofConstitutionalJusticeinLatinAmerica:Politics,Governance,andJudicialDesign
DanielM.BrinksandAbbyBlass
TheAdventuresoftheConstituentPower:BeyondRevolutions?
AndrewArato
CanadaintheWorld:ComparativePerspectivesontheCanadianConstitution
EditedbyRichardAlbertandDavidR.Cameron
Constitutions,ReligionandPoliticsinAsia:Indonesia,MalaysiaandSriLanka
DianA.H.Shah
CourtsandDemocraciesinAsia
PoJenYap
Proportionality:NewFrontiers,NewChallenges
EditedbyVickiC.JacksonandMarkTushnet
ConstituentsbeforeAssembly:Participation,Deliberation,andRepresentationintheCrafting
ofNewConstitutions
ToddA.Eisenstadt,A.CarlLeVan,andTofighMaboudi
AssessingConstitutionalPerformance
EditedbyTomGinsburgandAzizHuq
Buddhism,PoliticsandtheLimitsofLaw:ThePyrrhicConstitutionalismofSriLanka
BenjaminSchonthal
EngagingwithSocialRights:Procedure,ParticipationandDemocracyinSouthAfrica’sSecond
Wave
BrianRay
ConstitutionalCourtsasMediators:ArmedConflict,Civil-MilitaryRelations,andtheRuleof
LawinLatinAmerica
JulioR´ıos-Figueroa
PerilsofJudicialSelf-GovernmentinTransitionalSocieties
DavidKosarˇ
MakingWethePeople:DemocraticConstitutionalFoundinginPostwarJapanandSouth
Korea
ChaiharkHahmandSungHoKim
RadicalDeprivationonTrial:TheImpactofJudicialActivismonSocioeconomicRightsinthe
GlobalSouth
Ce´sarRodr´ıguez-GaravitoandDianaRodr´ıguez-Franco
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UnstableConstitutionalism:LawandPoliticsinSouthAsia
EditedbyMarkTushnetandMadhavKhosla
MagnaCartaandItsModernLegacy
EditedbyRobertHazellandJamesMelton
ConstitutionsandReligiousFreedom
FrankB.Cross
InternationalCourtsandthePerformanceofInternationalAgreements:AGeneralTheorywith
EvidencefromtheEuropeanUnion
CliffordJ.CarrubbaandMatthewJ.Gabel
ReputationandJudicialTactics:ATheoryofNationalandInternationalCourts
ShaiDothan
SocialDifferenceandConstitutionalisminPan-Asia
EditedbySusanH.Williams
ConstitutionalisminAsiaintheEarlyTwenty-FirstCentury
EditedbyAlbertH.Y.Chen
ConstitutionsinAuthoritarianRegimes
EditedbyTomGinsburgandAlbertoSimpser
PresidentialLegislationinIndia:TheLawandPracticeofOrdinances
ShubhankarDam
SocialandPoliticalFoundationsofConstitutions
EditedbyDenisJ.GalliganandMilaVersteeg
ConsequentialCourts:JudicialRolesinGlobalPerspective
EditedbyDianaKapiszewski,GordonSilverstein,andRobertA.Kagan
ComparativeConstitutionalDesign
EditedbyTomGinsburg
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Constitutionalism and a Right
to Effective Government?
Editedby
VICKI C. JACKSON
HarvardLawSchool
YASMIN DAWOOD
UniversityofToronto
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