Given the constitution of a particular society, this constitution needs to be adopted to changing social realities … Interpretation of the Constitution (PIC), by which constitutional norms are not only applied and adopted to changing circumstances … but essentially changed in content. The model of a System of Interpretation of the Constitution (SIC) is advanced in order …

. This distinction is not new, it is even obvious or commonsensical. However, first, this multi-layered nature of power is … personal powers and the social ones); second, in our view there is not a good analytic theory of the personal and interpersonal … layers of power and of their – not so obvious – relationships with the power that we prefer to call “institutional” (where …

establishment of power-sharing institutions in societies divided by ethnic or religious cleavages. Going beyond existing scholarly … work focused on these specific settings, we argue that political power-sharing institutions can also be the result of … more likely to emerge, leading ultimately to the establishment of power-sharing mechanisms that allow elite groups to …

political action. This paper criticizes that belief. Rather, it argues that a division of power, while sometimes entailing high … political transaction costs, can nevertheless be beneficial and that it is not necessarily the case that a division of power …