Federica Carugati 
Creating a Constitution [EPUB ebook] 
Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens

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A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created—with lessons for contemporary constitution-building
We live in an era of constitution-making. More than half of the world’s constitutions have been drafted in the past half-century. Yet, one question still eludes theorists and practitioners alike: how do stable, growth-enhancing constitutional structures emerge and endure? In Creating a Constitution, Federica Carugati argues that ancient Athens offers a unique laboratory for exploring this question. Because the city-state was reasonably well-documented, smaller than most modern nations, and simpler in its institutional makeup, the case of Athens reveals key factors of successful constitution-making that are hard to flesh out in more complex settings.
Carugati demonstrates that the institutional changes Athens undertook in the late fifth century BCE, after a period of war and internal strife, amounted to a de facto constitution. The constitution restored stability and allowed the democracy to flourish anew. The analysis of Athens’s case reveals the importance of three factors for creating a successful constitution: first, a consensus on a set of shared values capable of commanding long-term support; second, a self-enforcing institutional structure that reflects those values; and, third, regulatory mechanisms for policymaking that enable tradeoffs of inclusion to foster growth without jeopardizing stability.
Uniquely combining institutional analysis, political economy, and history, Creating a Constitution is a compelling account of how political and economic goals that we normally associate with Western developed countries were once achieved through different institutional arrangements.

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Federica Carugati is a program director at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 248 ● ISBN 9780691198712 ● Mărime fișier 3.3 MB ● Editura Princeton University Press ● Oraș Princeton ● Țară US ● Publicat 2019 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 6958841 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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