Creating a Constitution (eBook)

Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens

Federica Carugati (Autor)

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2019
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19871-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b/w illus. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Adjudication • Aegina • Ancient Greece • Archaic Greece • Athenian democracy • authoritarianism • Battle of Arginusae • Calculation • Cambridge University Press • Case study • Citizenship • city-state • Civil War • constitutional crisis • Corinthian War • Decision-Making • Decree • de facto • Delian League • Democracy • Demosthenes • Diolkos • dokimasia • Eastern Mediterranean • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic Policy • Economics • Exclusion • Expropriation • Failed State • Fiscal Policy • foreign policy • Governance • Greeks • Gulf of Corinth • hegemony • hostility • income • indictment • Infrastructure • Institution • Isagoras • Isocrates • land grant • Lawmaking • Legislation • Legitimacy (political) • Literature • median voter theorem • Megara • metic • Myanmar • New Laws • obstacle • Oligarchy • Oxford University Press • participant • Participatory Democracy • Peace treaty • Peloponnese • Peloponnesian War • Periodization • Persecution • Piracy • Polis • Politeia • Political Economy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Prediction • Prosecutor • Proxeny • Publication • Public institution (United States) • Radical Democracy • ratification • Representative Democracy • result • Rule of Law • Saronic Gulf • Slavery • Sovereignty • State Formation • Statute • Tax • The Oligarchs • The Other Hand • The Persians • thrasybulus • Thucydides • Trade-off • trireme • Tyrant • unrest • Voting • war • Wealth • Why Nations Fail
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19871-3 / 0691198713
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19871-2 / 9780691198712