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Assessing the impact of federalism on constitutional compliance

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Voigt, Stefan - 2024

Federalism is a constitutionalized version of multi-tier governance. Proponents of veto-player theory argue that a high … constitutional compliance, i.e. have governments that respect and enforce the promises made in their country's constitution. At the … same time, with a higher number of governments under federalism, there are more chances that some of them will not comply …

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Why adopt a federal constitution? : and why decentralize? : determinants based on a new dataset

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017

Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting … important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component … evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining …

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Securing personal freedom through institutions : the role of electoral democracy and judicial independence

Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2019

Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian...

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The puzzling long-term relationship between de jure and de facto judicial independence

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2018

We study the long-term and dynamic relationship between de jure and de facto judicial independence using a large panel dataset covering 50 countries over a period of 50 years. Our analysis shows a negative relationship between these variables, a sharp cont rast to the prevailing theoretical view...

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Judicial quality in the EU

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017

Based on data from the EU Justice Scoreboard, we identify a puzzle: National levels of judicial independence (as perceived by the citizens of EU member states) are negatively associated with the presence of formal legislation usually considered as conducive to judicial independence. We try to...

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Militant constitutionalism - a promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely?

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2019

Constitutional democracy is in decline and many would-be autocrats try to elude constitutional constraints or even to exploit constitutions in their favor. We make a number of proposals for designing constitutions that are more resilient against such attempts. A first look at the empirical...

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Terrorism and emergency constitutions in the Muslim world

Bjørnskov, Christian; Voigt, Stefan - 2019

The Middle East is the most terror-prone region of the world. It is almost exclusively governed by autocratic regimes that often explicitly refer to Islam to justify some of their policies. In this paper, we analyse government reactions to terrorist events in the states that are members of the...

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Mind the gap - analyzing the divergence between constitutional text and constitutional reality

Voigt, Stefan - 2020 - This version: November 8, 2019

over the last two decades. The factors determining whether a constitution is complied with, however, have received only …

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Islamic constitutions and religious minorities

Gouda, Moamen; Gutmann, Jerg - 2018 - This version: 20 November 2018

This study examines the effect of formal institutions, specifically constitutional provisions, on minority discrimination in Muslim societies. We hypothesize that those Muslim countries in which (political) Islam constitutes an important constraint in the legislative process experience more...

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The nation-state foundations of constitutional compliance

Grajzl, Peter; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

We bring attention to a previously overlooked determinant of de jure-de facto constitutional gaps: a polity's transition to a nation-state. We argue that nation-statehood, predicated on the formation of a strong sense of national identity, lowers the government's incentive to violate...

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