Property Without Rights
Property Without Rights

Author: Michael Albertus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1108835236

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A new understanding of the causes and consequences of incomplete property rights in countries across the world.

The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics
The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics

Author: Roderic Ai Camp

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 839

ISBN-13: 0195377389

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A comprehensive view of the remarkable transformation of Mexico's political system to a democratic model. The contributors to this volume assess the most influential institutions, actors, policies and issues in the country's current evolution toward democratic consolidation.

Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy
Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy

Author: Brian Christopher Jones

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-06-26

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1788971108

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Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy investigates the increasingly important subject of constitutional idolatry and its effects on democracy. Focussed around whether the UK should draft a single written constitution, it suggests that constitutions have been drastically and persistently over-sold throughout the years, and that their wider importance and effects are not nearly as significant as constitutional advocates maintain. Chapters analyse whether written constitutions can educate the citizenry, invigorate voter turnout, or deliver ‘We the People’ sovereignty.

The Legal Foundations of Inequality
The Legal Foundations of Inequality

Author: Roberto Gargarella

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04-12

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1139485989

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The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. They claimed that all men were created equal with similar capacities and also that the community should become self-governing. Following the first constitutional debates that took place in the region, these promising egalitarian claims, which gave legitimacy to the revolutions, soon fell out of favor. Advocates of a conservative order challenged both ideals and favored constitutions that established religion and created an exclusionary political structure. Liberals proposed constitutions that protected individual autonomy and rights but established severe restrictions on the principle of majority rule. Radicals favored an openly majoritarian constitutional organization that, according to many, directly threatened the protection of individual rights. This book examines the influence of these opposite views during the 'founding period' of constitutionalism in countries including the United States, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.