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23 - Political Aspects

from Part IV - Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

Wim Voermans
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Universiteit Leiden
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Constitutions - in a political sense - provide solutions to the age old problem of leadership changes and how majorities and minorities should interact. If political communities solve these problems the can better coordinate their efforts, which in turn will give them a competitive advantage (military, fiscal, economic, etc.) to other (less coordinated) political communities. This chapter looks into the political effects constitutions have, and how they try to calibrate these kind of balances. It also look into the possibilities of calculating or engineering (new) balances like this, for instance for divided societies and transitional democracies (constitutional engineering)

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The Story of Constitutions
Discovering the We in Us
, pp. 270 - 280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Political Aspects
  • Wim Voermans, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: The Story of Constitutions
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009385084.028
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  • Political Aspects
  • Wim Voermans, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: The Story of Constitutions
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009385084.028
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  • Political Aspects
  • Wim Voermans, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book: The Story of Constitutions
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009385084.028
Available formats
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