1st Edition

Deliberative Constitution-making Opportunities and Challenges

Edited By Min Reuchamps, Yanina Welp Copyright 2023
236 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy and provides a general overview of what the challenges and prospects of deliberative constitution-making are today. It seeks to provide a more complete picture of what is at stake as a political trend in various places in the world, both theoretically... Read more

Introduction: Does it matter if constitution-making is deliberative?

Yanina Welp & Min Reuchamps

Chapter 1: The meanings of deliberation and citizen participation: representing the citizens in constitution-making processes

Elena García-Guitián

Chapter 2: Citizen deliberation and constitutional change

Paul Blokker & Volkan Gül

Chapter 3: From Deliberative Systems to Democracy

Peter Stone

Chapter 4: Gender and deliberative constitution-making

Claudia Heiss & Monika Mokre

Chapter 5: Ethnic Groups and Constitutional Deliberation: Understanding Participation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Romania

Sergiu Gherghina, Jasmin Hasic & Sergiu Miscoiu

Chapter 6: 'Deliberating the Rights of the Child': The Inclusion of Children in Deliberative Democracy and Some Insights from Israel

Daniella Zlotnik Raz & Shulamit Almog

Chapter 7: Inclusiveness and effectiveness of digital participatory experiments in constitutional reforms

Raphael Kies, Alina Östling, Visvaldis Valtenbergs, Sébastien Théron, Stéphanie Wojcik & Norbert Kersting

Chapter 8: Lessons from two island nations: Re-reading the Icelandic Deliberative Constitutional Process in light of the success of the Irish Constitutional Convention

Eirikur Bergmann

Chapter 9: Deliberative constitution-making and local participatory processes in Poland and Hungary

Agnieszka Kampka & Daniel Oross

Chapter 10: Can the decolonial be deliberative? Constitution-making and colonial contexts: Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands

Jón Ólafsson

Chapter 11: Constitutional referendums and deliberation: Direct democratic integrity in Russia, Italy, and Turkey

Norbert Kersting

Conclusion: Hopes and limits of deliberative and democratic constitution-making

Yanina Welp

Biography

Min Reuchamps is a Professor of Political Science at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and Chair of the COST Action ‘Constitution-making and deliberative democracy’ (2018–2022).

Yanina Welp is a Research fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland), and Chair of the COST Action ‘Constitution-making and deliberative democracy’ (2022–2023).