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Constitutions are expected to incarnate the will of the people but with few exceptions citizens have very few opportunities to directly influence them. Nowadays violent clashes and massive protests are much more likely to create new constitutions than a peaceful democratic process.
With distrust in politicians on the rise many emerging social movements demand a ‘real democracy’. But what is a real democracy?
A podcast by the Cost Action Constitution making and deliberative democracy and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
Produced by Yanina Welp and Michelle Olguin
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פרקים אחרים בפודקאסט הזה
In the last two decades, many citizens’ assemblies were launched in consolidated democracies, from Canada to Australia, including many experiences in European countries and at the European Union level. Citizens Assemblies (CA’s) are tasked with learning, deliberating and advising upon a low or pol…
In this second episode, we want to explore why non-democratic regimes quite often do engage in elaborating constitutions and why they sometimes promote or simulate the promotion of citizens engagement in participatory processes. Why if they seem to go govern without restrictions would they be inte…
The elaboration of new constitutions in stable and consolidated democracies is uncommon. Quite often, constitutions in force either do not regulate their replacement or put in place obstacles that make change very difficult. These difficulties in times of crises of legitimacy provide incentives fo…
Literature dedicated to analysing constitution-making has focused on the relationship between “the optimal design of the constitution-making process” (in Jon Elster’s words) and a “successful” constitution in terms of whether it is durable, supported by citizens and able to establish the desired f…
הצהרה: הפודקאסט והגרפיקה המוטבעים בדף זה הם מ-Constitutions for Democracy, שהוא רכושו של בעליו ואינו קשור או מאושר על ידי Listen Notes, Inc.
