Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bernard Lategan
• Ursula J. van Beek

Titel

The quality of young democracies from a constitutional perspective

Ist Teil von

• Democracy under scrutiny, 2010, p.95

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Verlag Barbara Budrich

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

UTB Scholars

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In what way can constitutions be an indicator of the quality of democracy? How can the study of the founding document of a new democratic dispensation help us to determine whether its lofty ideals have taken root in reality and whether the life of citizens has as a consequence improved or not? Furthermore, is its potential influence measurable in any meaningful way? Is the vision from the mountain not too far removed from the realities on the ground? To arrive at some meaningful answers to these questions we need to consider the complex nature of constitutions, the various ways in