constitutional rules on social outcomes. We find no evidence that Islam encourages minority discrimination if it is not …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 …

constitution, or the act of 1905, it’s not what it appear, and mostly known in the french literature, this article is to reject all … questions of how the idea of laicism has been reversed into the interwar period thus to the 1958 constitution to be developed in …

Azhar, one of the most respected Sunni religious institutions in the world, developed a model of an Islamic constitution …. This study uses Al-Azhar's constitution as a model of Islamic constitutionalism, whereby its stance regarding rule of law … is examined. We find that Al-Azhar's constitution does not correspond with essential concepts of rule of law. For example …

-majority countries. However, we find no evidence that Islam is inimical to democracy when not entrenched in the constitution …There is an ongoing debate on the relationship between Islam, oil wealth and (lack of) democracy. Considerable … literature shows that Islam, represented as an informal institution by Muslim population share, has a negative effect on …

, whereas military dictatorships perform the worst. Although compliance is not determined by a constitution's breadth … the constitution achieve higher compliance levels. …

Constitutional Economics - the analysis of constitutions drawing on the economic approach - has made important progress … over the last two decades. The factors determining whether a constitution is complied with, however, have received only …

, whereas military dictatorships perform the worst. Although compliance is not determined by a constitution’s breadth … the constitution achieve higher compliance levels …