Search Results - subject_exact:"Contractarian political economy"

Co-voting democracy : dridging direct and representative democracy

Gersbach, Hans - 2026

We provide a rationale for Co-Voting, a decision-making procedure that blends elements of direct and representative democracy to mitigate their main inefficiencies. A randomly selected group of citizens receives voting rights on specific issues, with their collective decision aggregated with...

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Populism, constitutional constraints, and freedom of expression

Bjørnskov, Christian; Berggren, Niclas - 2026

Populists typically frame politics as a conflict between a corrupt elite and a virtuous people and are skeptical of institutional constraints, including those protecting freedom of expression, as they seek to control the public narrative. We ask to what extent de jure constitutional guarantees...

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The balanced budget in the Italian constitution : the evolution of article 81 and the sustainability of public finances

Marini, Giorgia; Mino, Giulia - 2026

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Populism and constitutionalism

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna - 2026

Populism is frequently described as a threat to constitutionalism, although some researchers emphasize that populists, too, draft, enforce, and derive legitimacy from constitutions. This chapter explains the theoretical foundations of these concerns and provides an overview of empirical evidence...

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Democratic sovereignty and the prerogative to make money : the case of the Federal Reserve

Desan, Christine - 2026

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Crafting compliance : the role of inclusion and participation in constitution-making

Schnelle, Tim - 2026

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International sanctions and constitutional compliance

Gutmann, Jerg; Langer, Pascal; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2026 - This version: July 1, 2026

Many studies have evaluated whether sanctions improve or harm the living conditions of target populations, for example in terms of the protection of human rights. However, judging governments' responses to international sanctions based on their compliance with a universal human rights standard...

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Constitutional and administrative justice and human rights protection : global experience and the case of Kazakhstan

Adam, Ernar; Zhanuzakova, Leila; Taitorina, Binur; … - 2025

The Kazakh judicial system has undergone significant changes in recent years aimed at increasing its independence, transparency and efficiency. The aim of the study is to analyze contemporary approaches to adjudicating disputes regarding the conformity of normative legal acts with the national...

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Bend it like Bolsonaro : global evidence on the effect of populism on constitutional compliance

Gutmann, Jerg; Rode, Martin - 2025 - This version: October 9, 2025

Populist governance is fundamentally at odds with constitutionalism. As a political project, populism rejects constraints on "the will of the people," including those essential to liberal-democratic constitutions. Yet, the extent to which elected populists actually undermine constitutional order...

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Bend it like Bolsonaro : global evidence on the effect of populism on constitutional compliance

Gutmann, Jerg; Rode, Martin - 2025 - First draft: October 5, 2025, this version: October 9, 2025

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Why Bloomington is not in Virginia : contrasting the social ontologies of the Ostroms and Buchanan

Cervesato, Massimo - 2025

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Culture and constitutional compliance

Gutmann, Jerg; Lewczuk-Czerwińska, Anna; Lewkowicz, Jacek - 2025

Constitutions as the formal foundation of a country's legal and political system have important economic and political effects. Yet, we still know little about why constitutions set effective constraints on politicians in some societies, while being largely disregarded in others. Here, we ask if...

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Culture and constitutional compliance

Gutmann, Jerg; Lewczuk-Czerwińska, Anna; Lewkowicz, Jacek - 2025

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Europe's super-rich : towards oligarchic constitutional order

Regilme, Salvador Santino F. <Jr.> - 2025

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A political economy perspective of the constitution of ancient Sparta : conflict resolution, credibility, and stability

Tridimas, George - 2025

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Are social contracts possible without actual negotiation?

Holcombe, Randall G.; Robson, Gregory J. - 2025

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On the politics of constitutional law : an environmental case study of the role of politics and economics in constitutional appeals

Lipford, Jody W. - 2025

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Collective layoffs and offshoring : a social contract account

Granulo, Armin; Kranzbühler, Anne-Madeleine; Fuchs, … - 2025

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Do not miss this ordonomic reply to our critics : why social contract theory favors commercial over cooperative platforms in the sharing economy

Hielscher, Stefan; Everding, Sebastian; Pies, Ingo - 2025

This discussion paper responds to the critique of our 2022 article "Ordo-Responsibility in the Sharing Economy: A Social Contracts Perspective" published in Business Ethics Quarterly. Ghirlanda and Sacconi (2024) argue that a properly understood version of constitutional contractarianism would...

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The power of empirical evidence : assessing changes in public opinion on constitutional emergency provisions

Iwasaki, Masaki - 2025

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Measuring constitutional loyalty

Gutmann, Jerg; Sarel, Roee; Voigt, Stefan - 2025

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Rights against the welfare state : Timbro and the neoliberal mobilisation of legalist constitutionalism in Sweden, 1980-2000

Strang, Johan - 2025

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Economic approaches to the separation of powers

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2025

This chapter surveys economic perspectives on the separation of powers, revealing how contemporary research in political economics and the economic analysis of law conceptualize and assess institutional checks on government authority. Emphasizing principal-agent theory, it unpacks how...

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Can new constitutions tighten the reins? : the effect of constitutional change on constitutional compliance

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2025

Constitutional compliance varies significantly across countries and over time. One might, therefore, expect that constitutional change is systematically used to bring constitutional rules in line with constitutional practice. We investigate whether constitutional change indeed induces better...

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Political economy with a normative purpose : James M. Buchanan's contractarian-constitutionalist research program

Vanberg, Viktor - 2025

This paper summarizes the core tenets of James M. Buchanan’s research program, its contractarianism, dealing with the source from which political orders are to derive their legitimacy, and its contractarianism, specifying the requirements for a political order to operate for the mutual...

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Minimal stable voting rules

Hermida-Rivera, Héctor - 2025

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Operationalising social contracts : towards an index of government deliverables

Loewe, Markus; El-Haddad, Amirah; Zintl, Tina - 2024

The international development debate is increasingly referring to the notion of the "social contract" - often, however, without a clear definition of the term and its implications. We therefore make a suggestion for measuring at least some elements of social contracts in order to make it easier...

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On the (robust) ex post stability of constitutions

Jeong, Daeyoung; Kim, Semin - 2024

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Pathways to a new eco-social contract in Nepal : judicial interpretations of constitutional guarantees and their implementation

Siwakoti, Sachin - 2024

Nepal's democratic transition led to the promulgation of its Constitution in 2015 that guarantees transformative rights across economic, social, cultural, environmental and developmental spheres. The Constitution signifies a shift in the societal contract by introducing an array of fundamental...

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Constitutional artisans : James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom on artifactual man, the constitutional attitude, and the political economy of constitutional design

Lewis, Paul; Meadowcroft, John - 2024

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The Republic of Senegal at a political turning point as President Faye takes office

Grütjen, Klaus - 2024

On 24 March 2024, presidential elections were held in Senegal, with opposition politician Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, who was 43 at the time, emerging as the winner. On 2 April 2024, he was sworn in as the fifth President of the Republic of Senegal. This event may mark a turning point in the...

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Buchanan and the social contract : coordination failures and the atrophy of property rights

Marciano, Alain; Bertola, Giuseppe - 2024

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Shocking resilience? : effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance

Choutagunta, Abishek; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2024

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Assessing the impact of federalism on constitutional compliance

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Voigt, Stefan - 2024

Federalism is a constitutionalized version of multi-tier governance. Proponents of veto-player theory argue that a high number of veto players leads to a high degree of policy stability. Compared to states with a unitary structure, federal countries, in which at least one sub-central level of...

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Trial by jury as a guarantee of legitimate decisions : constitutional, legal and economic principles

Berch, Veronika; Lankevych, Andriy; Bysaha, Yurii - 2024

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Political culture and attitudes of economic elites : explaining the Chilean business community's rejection to constitutional change

Osorio-Rauld, Alejandro; Pelfini, Alejandro; … - 2024

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Towards an EU-wide right to politically strike : a constitutional perspective : executive summary

2024

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, assesses the status of political strikes in the EU. While workers' strikes generally seek to pressure an employer, "political strikes" are...

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Towards an EU-wide right to politically strike : a constitutional perspective : executive summary

2024

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Towards an EU-wide right to politically strike : a constitutional perspective

2024

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Towards an EU-wide right to politically strike : a constitutional perspective

2024

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The notion of constitutional identity and its role in European integration

2024

Since the introduction of Article 4(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the meaning and function of the notion of constitutional identity have become an important point of contention. This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional...

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The notion of constitutional identity and its role in European integration

2024

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Constitutional constraints on public debt in the ecological transition era

Lemme, Michele - 2024

This article focuses on financing the necessary public expenditures to address the challenge of climate change faced by human societies, specifically examining the choice of public debt. Considering the already significant levels of public debt worldwide, this decision becomes particularly...

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Clubbing in trade policies : how much a threat to the multilateral constitution?

Dluhosch, Barbara; Horgos, Daniel - 2024

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Toward Building Somalia's Social Contract

2024

State building and state legitimacy in the states emerging from fragility are inseparable from the notion of social contract. In the countries where the youth only know statelessness-or a complete absence of state institutions-building a new social contract from the ground up becomes an even...

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New constitutionalism across the North-South divide : neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements

Glatzer, Nina; Neumann, Manuel; Müller, Franziska - 2024

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Constitutions and religion in Egypt : a comparative study

Sayed, Eman Shady - 2024

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the position of religion for the three constitutions of Egypt. Design/methodology/approach - In this study, by tracing religious identity-related studies and seeing whether their existence is attributed to the ruling elites' attitudes, it...

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The future of Europe : a constitutional political economy argument in favour of "variable geometries"

Wohlgemuth, Michael - 2024

For decades European integration combined its deepening and widening in a mostly unitary fashion. A "one-size-fits-all" approach, however, seems little promising for a future EU of some 35 member states and an enlarged set of EU-competencies. To manage further deepening and widening of the EU,...

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Credibility and Precommitment in Socialist Constitutionalism

Edwards, Sebastian - 2026

In this paper I examine Chile's 1972 initiative to draft a new constitution under President Salvador Allende. I analyze the political and economic circumstances that gave rise to the project and the institutional mechanisms through which the draft sought to advance a socialist economic and...

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The public pension crisis : contractual rights and constitutional limits

Anenson, T. Leigh - 2026

"A timely response to the pressing issue of public pension reform, The Public Pension Crisis explores the complex relationship between contract law and government pensions, specifically focusing on the Contract Clause and related state Pension Clauses. Analyzing over a decade of litigation, the...

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W. H. Hutt’s constitutional political economy complements the 2024 and 2025 Nobel Prizes : a note

Carden, Art - 2026

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The comparative constitutional compliance database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

This article introduces a novel database that measures governments' compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...

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The comparative constitutional compliance database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2022

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The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

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The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2022

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Non-majoritarian institutions - a menace to constitutional democracy?

Voigt, Stefan - 2023

Over the last couple of decades, non-majoritarian institutions (NMIs) have been introduced in many countries. Of late, they have been criticized as promoting technocracy to the detriment of democracy. A number of political scientists even argue that they would strengthen populists and be, hence,...

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How not to write a constitution : lessons from Chile

Larraín, Guillermo; Negretto, Gabriel L.; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

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Mapping Constitutionally Safeguarded Judicial Independence — A Global Survey

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

De jure judicial independence (JI) is the single most important predictor of de facto JI. In this paper, we describe under what conditions countries are likely to include JI in their constitutions. We describe and analyze both their original choice in this regard as well as change over time...

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Mapping Constitutionally Safeguarded Judicial Independence — A Global Survey

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2010

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