Making Constitutions: Presidents, Parties, and Institutional Choice in Latin America

摘要

Are constitutional rules the product of benevolent institutional engineering or the result of short-sighted partisan conflict? Making Constitutions defies a naive conception of institutions as mere 'rules of the game' by showing how institutional performance and partisan majorities influence the content of constitutional rules endogenously. The book offers a thorough account of the design of Latin American legal frameworks with regard to presidential powers and the rules for electing the chief executive.