Alberts, Susan; Warshaw, Christopher; Weingast, Barry R. - 2015
the new constitution is in place. Sustaining democracy involves the reciprocal ability to impose costs on the other group …Most democratic constitutions fail. The estimated half-life of a democratic constitution adopted between 1789 and 2005 … democracy to survive, it must be self-enforcing in the sense that all parties with the power to disrupt democracy – such as an …