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Practical Considerations for Public Participation in Constitution-Building What, When, How and Why?

International IDEA Policy Paper No. 24

By: Erin C. Houlihan and Sumit Bisarya

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Practical Considerations for Public Participation in Constitution-Building What, When, How and Why?

International IDEA Policy Paper No. 24

By: Erin C. Houlihan and Sumit Bisarya

Public participation has become a core element of modern constitution-building. Robust participation is credited with a range of benefits—from improving individual behaviours and attitudes to democracy to shaping elite bargaining dynamics, improving constitutional content, and strengthening outcomes for democracy and peace. Yet it is not well understood whether and how public participation can achieve these ends. Much of what we think we know about participatory constitution-building remains theoretical. No two processes are alike, and there is no agreed definition of what constitutes a ‘participatory process’. Yet national decision-makers must contend with the key question: What does a robust participation process look like for a particular country, at a particular time, in a particular context? What considerations and principles can be derived from comparative experience to guide decisions? This Policy Paper unpacks the forms and functions of public participation across different stages of the constitution-building process and considers the ways in which public engagement can influence the dynamics of the process, including political negotiations.

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Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2019

By: Adem Abebe,Sumit Bisarya,W. Elliot Bulmer,Erin C. Houlihan,Thibaut Noel

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Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2019

By: Adem Abebe,Sumit Bisarya,W. Elliot Bulmer,Erin C. Houlihan,Thibaut Noel

International IDEA’s Annual Review of Constitution-Building provides a retrospective account of constitutional transitions around the world, the issues that drive them, and their implications for national and international politics. This seventh edition covers events in 2019. Because this year marks the end of a decade, the first chapter summarizes a series of discussions International IDEA held with international experts and scholars throughout the year on the evolution of constitution-building over the past 10 years. The edition also includes chapters on challenges with sustaining constitutional pacts in Guinea and Zimbabwe; public participation in constitutional reform processes in The Gambia and Mongolia; constitutional change and subnational governance arrangements in Tobago and the Autonomous Region of Bangsamoro; the complexities of federal systems and negotiations on federal state structures in Myanmar and South Sudan; and the drawing (and redrawing) of the federal map in South Sudan and India. Writing at the mid-way point between the instant reactions of the blogosphere and academic analyses that follow several years later, the authors provide accounts of ongoing political transitions, the major constitutional issues they give rise to, and the implications of these processes for democracy, the rule of law and peace.

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Constitutional Approaches to Decentralization: Elements, Challenges and Implications: Fourth Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue, 2022

By: Erin C. Houlihan ,Sharon P. Hickey

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Constitutional Approaches to Decentralization: Elements, Challenges and Implications: Fourth Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue, 2022

By: Erin C. Houlihan ,Sharon P. Hickey

Whether decentralization, and particularly devolution and federalism, is advantageous or disadvantageous for women is a long-debated issue. The effectiveness of decentralization in promoting gender equality depends on how the system is designed, the quality of implementation planning and the adequacy of resources. Decentralization processes, nevertheless, are particularly fertile ground for enhanced and systematic women’s engagement, with numerous avenues for mobilization and advocacy throughout the long period of interpretation, implementation and enforcement, which can be harnessed by women to shape what decentralization will look like in practical terms. The Fourth Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue focused on decentralization from a technical and empirical perspective to support women constitution-makers engaged in constitution-building processes and constitutional implementation through knowledge transfer and comparative experience sharing.

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Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2018

By: Adem Abebe,Elliot Bulmer,Amanda Cats-Baril ,Roberto Gargarella ,Erin Houlihan,Dian Shah

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Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2018

By: Adem Abebe,Elliot Bulmer,Amanda Cats-Baril ,Roberto Gargarella ,Erin Houlihan,Dian Shah

International IDEA’s Annual Review of Constitution-Building provides a retrospective account of constitutional transitions, the issues that drive them and their implications for national and international politics. This sixth edition covers events in 2018 and includes articles on constitutional events in several regions of the world where International IDEA is active. These are loosely themed around the challenges of cooperation and coordination in constitutional politics—between majorities and minorities (in Burundi and Comoros, in Bolivia and Colombia, and in the Commonwealth Caribbean), between coalition partners in constitutional change processes (in Malaysia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka) and between external actors (in Libya, South Sudan and Yemen). Writing at the mid-way point between the instant reactions of the blogosphere and academic analyses that follow several years later, the authors provide accounts of ongoing political transitions, the major constitutional issues they give rise to and the implications of these processes for democracy, the rule of law and peace.

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Book's by Erin C. Houlihan

Practical Considerations for Public Participation in Constitution-Building What, When, How and Why?

Practical Considerations for Public Participation in Constitution-Building What, When, How and Why?

Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2019

Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2019

Constitutional Approaches to Decentralization: Elements, Challenges and Implications: Fourth Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue, 2022

Constitutional Approaches to Decentralization: Elements, Challenges and Implications: Fourth Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue, 2022

Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2018

Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2018

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