Framing the state in times of transition
Subtitle: case studies in constitution making
By: Laurel E. Miller, editor ; with Louis Aucoin.
Contributors: Miller, Laurel; Aucoin, Louis.
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781601270344
Subjects: Constitutional history; Constitutional conventions; New democracies
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Norms of international law relating to the constitution-making process / Thomas M. Franck and Arun K. Thiruvengadam; title: Constitution making and the right to take part in a public affair / Vivien Hart; title: Constitution making in Eritrea : a process-driven approach / Bereket Habte Selassie; title: Namibia's long walk to freedom : the role of constitution making in the creation of an independent Namibia / Marinus Wiechers; title: Creating the birth certificate of a new South Africa : constitution making after apartheid / Hassen Ebrahim and Laurel E. Miller; title: The politics of constitution making in Uganda / Aili Mari Tripp; title: Zimbabwe's unfulfilled struggle for a legitimate constitutional order / Muna Ndulo; title: The process of creating a new constitution in Cambodia / Stephen P. Marks; title: East Timor's constitutional passage to independence / Louis Aucoin and Michele Brandt; title: Between coups : constitution making in Fiji / Jill Cottrell and Yash Ghai; title: The drafting process for the 1998 Albanian constitution / Scott N. Carlson; title: The Dayton constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina / James C. O'Brien; title: Constitution making and transitional politics in Hungary / Andrew Arato and Zoltan Miklosi; title: Constitution making, peace building, and national reconciliation : the experience of Poland / Lech Garlicki and Zofia Garlicka; title: Constitution making and democratization : the Spanish paradigm / Andrea Bonime-Blanc; title: Conflict resolution and constitutionalism : the making of the Brazilian constitution of 1988 / Keith S. Rosenn; title: Lessons of the Colombian constitutional reform of 1991 : toward the securing of peace and reconciliation? / Donald T. Fox, Gustavo Gallon-Giraldo, and Anne Stetson; title: The Nicaraguan constitutional experience : process, conflict, contradictions, and change / Philip J. Williams and Lee Walker; title: The 1999 Venezuelan constitution-making process as an instrument for framing the development of an authoritarian regime / Allan R. Brewer-Carias; title: Big tent, small tent : the making of a constitution in Afghanistan / J. Alexander Thier; title: Deconstituting Mesopotamia : cutting a deal on the regionalization of Iraq / Jonathan Morrow; title: Designing constitution-making processes : lessons from the past, questions for the future / Laurel E. Miller.