Search for dissertations about: "constitutional choice"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words constitutional choice.
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1. Constitutionalism in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania : A Study in Comparative Constitutional Law
Abstract : This thesis deals with the present constitutions of Estonia (1992), Latvia (1922) and Lithuania (1992). Their content and implementation by judicial means are examined and compared with each other. The choice of constitution - a new or an old - is also discussed. READ MORE
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2. Constitutional rules and party goals in coalition formation : an analysis of winning minority governments in Sweden
Abstract : This study starts with two theoretical puzzles within the rational choice oriented literature on government formation in parliamentary democracies: the relative importance of constitutional rules and the existence of multiple party goals. From these puzzles stem the research questions that guide the study: First, what is the theoretical and empirical link between constitutional arrangements (including rules) and party goals? Second, what are the goals of political parties and how can these be studied? Third, relative to the goals of political parties and other constitutional arrangements, what is the importance of government formation rules for the empirical record of minority and majority governments?Coalition theory provides the theoretical starting point from which the research questions stem. READ MORE
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3. Essays in constitutional economics
Abstract : Essays in Constitutional Economics uses the theoretical tools developed in public choice and constitutional economics to analyze how institutions of various sorts influence the individual choice calculus. Institutions are seen as formal and informal rules that can be evaluated and, although oftentimes durable, reformed. READ MORE
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4. The Establishment of Semi-Presidential Regimes : A Mixed Methods Approach to How and Why
Abstract : One of the crucial constitutional choices made in a democratizing or recently independent state is the structure of executive-legislative relations that forms into a parliamentary, presidential, or semi-presidential regime. Even so, only a few studies have sought the reasons for the establishment and least of all is known when it comes to the most recent of them: the semi-presidential one. READ MORE
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5. Decisions on democracy : The politics of constitution-making in South Africa 1990-1996
Abstract : Constitution making was at the very centre of the-troubled but ultimately successful SouthAfrican transition to democracy. Despite divergent and contradictory demands on thenature of a future democratic constitution, and the ever-present risk of a return to armedconflict in a vicious circle of violence and distrust, the South African patties reached acompromise that so far has been the foundation of six years of multiparty democracy. READ MORE
