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constitutionalism and a right to effective government? Nations around the world are facing various crises of ineffective government. Basic governmentalfunctions–protectingrights,preventingviolence,andpromotingmaterial well-being–arecompromised,leadingtodeclinesingeneralwelfare,intheenjoyment ofrights,andevenindemocracyitself.Thisinnovativecollection,featuringanalysesby leaders in the fields of constitutional law and politics, highlights the essential role of effective government in sustaining democratic constitutionalism. The book explores “effective government” as a right, principle, duty, and interest, situating questions of governance in debates about negative and positive constitutionalism. In addition to providing new conceptual approaches to the connections between rights and govern- ance, the volume also provides novel insights into government institutions, including courts, legislatures, executives, and administrative bodies, as well as the media and politicalparties.Thisisanessentialvolumeforanyoneinterestedinconstitutionalism, comparativelaw,governance,democracy,theruleoflaw,andrights. VickiC.JacksonisLaurenceH.TribeProfessorofConstitutionalLawatHarvardLaw School. She has written widely on comparative and US constitutional law, in works including Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era (2010), Comparative Constitutional Law (with Mark Tushnet, 3d. ed. 2014), and Defining the Field of ComparativeConstitutionalLaw(withMarkTushnet,2002). YasminDawoodistheCanadaResearchChairinDemocracy,Constitutionalism,and ElectoralLaw,andAssociateProfessorattheFacultyofLaw,UniversityofToronto.She alsoholdsanappointmentin theDepartment ofPolitical Science.Shehaspublished widely on voting rights, comparative election law, and the theory and practice of democraticconstitutionalism. Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press COMPARATIVECONSTITUTIONALLAWANDPOLICY SeriesEditors TomGinsburgUniversityofChicago ZacharyElkinsUniversityofTexasatAustin RanHirschlUniversityofToronto Comparative constitutional law is an intellectually vibrant field that encompasses an increasingly broad array of approaches and methodologies. This series collects analytically innovative and empirically grounded work from scholars of comparative constitutionalism across academic disciplines. Books in the series include theoretically informed studies of singleconstitutionaljurisdictions,comparativestudiesofconstitutionallawandinstitutions, andeditedcollectionsoforiginalessaysthatrespondtochallengingtheoreticalandempirical questionsinthefield. BooksintheSeries ConstitutionalismandaRighttoEffectiveGovernment? EditedbyVickiC.JacksonandYasminDawood TheFalloftheArabSpring:Democracy’sChallengesandEffortstoReconstitutetheMiddle East TofighMaboudi FilteringPopulistClaimstoFightPopulism:TheItalianCaseinaComparativePerspective GiuseppeMartinico ConstitutionalisminContext EditedbyDavidS.Law TheNewFourthBranch:InstitutionsforProtectingConstitutionalDemocracy MarkTushnet TheVeilofParticipation:CitizensandPoliticalPartiesinConstitution-MakingProcesses AlexanderHudson ToweringJudges:AComparativeStudyofConstitutionalJudges EditedbyRehanAbeyratneandIddoPorat TheConstitutionofArbitration VictorFerreresComella RedraftingConstitutionsinDemocraticOrders:TheoreticalandComparativePerspectives EditedbyGabrielL.Negretto FromParchmenttoPractice:ImplementingNewConstitutions EditedbyTomGinsburgandAzizZ.Huq TheFailureofPopularConstitutionMakinginTurkey:RegressingTowardsConstitutional Autocracy EditedbyFelixPetersenandZeynepYanas¸mayan AQualifiedHope:TheIndianSupremeCourtandProgressiveSocialChange EditedbyGeraldN.Rosenberg,SudhirKrishnaswamy,andShishirBail ReconstructingRights:Courts,Parties,andEqualityRightsinIndia,SouthAfrica,andthe UnitedStates StephanStohler ConstitutionsinTimesofFinancialCrisis EditedbyTomGinsburg,MarkD.Rosen,andGeorgVanberg Published online by Cambridge University Press HybridConstitutionalism:ThePoliticsofConstitutionalReviewintheChineseSpecial AdministrativeRegions EricC.Ip Constitution-MakingandTransnationalLegalOrder EditedbyTomGinsburg,TerenceC.Halliday,andGregoryShaffer TheInvisibleConstitutioninComparativePerspective EditedbyRosalindDixonandAdrienneStone ThePolitico-LegalDynamicsofJudicialReview:AComparativeAnalysis TheunisRoux ConstitutionalCourtsinAsia:AComparativePerspective EditedbyAlbertH.Y.ChenandAndrewHarding JudicialReviewinNorway:ABicentennialDebate AnineKierulf ConstituentAssemblies EditedbyJonElster,RobertoGargarella,VatsalNaresh,andBjornErikRasch TheDNAofConstitutionalJusticeinLatinAmerica:Politics,Governance,andJudicialDesign DanielM.BrinksandAbbyBlass TheAdventuresoftheConstituentPower:BeyondRevolutions? AndrewArato CanadaintheWorld:ComparativePerspectivesontheCanadianConstitution EditedbyRichardAlbertandDavidR.Cameron Constitutions,ReligionandPoliticsinAsia:Indonesia,MalaysiaandSriLanka DianA.H.Shah CourtsandDemocraciesinAsia PoJenYap Proportionality:NewFrontiers,NewChallenges EditedbyVickiC.JacksonandMarkTushnet ConstituentsbeforeAssembly:Participation,Deliberation,andRepresentationintheCrafting ofNewConstitutions ToddA.Eisenstadt,A.CarlLeVan,andTofighMaboudi AssessingConstitutionalPerformance EditedbyTomGinsburgandAzizHuq Buddhism,PoliticsandtheLimitsofLaw:ThePyrrhicConstitutionalismofSriLanka BenjaminSchonthal EngagingwithSocialRights:Procedure,ParticipationandDemocracyinSouthAfrica’sSecond Wave BrianRay ConstitutionalCourtsasMediators:ArmedConflict,Civil-MilitaryRelations,andtheRuleof LawinLatinAmerica JulioR´ıos-Figueroa PerilsofJudicialSelf-GovernmentinTransitionalSocieties DavidKosarˇ MakingWethePeople:DemocraticConstitutionalFoundinginPostwarJapanandSouth Korea ChaiharkHahmandSungHoKim RadicalDeprivationonTrial:TheImpactofJudicialActivismonSocioeconomicRightsinthe GlobalSouth Ce´sarRodr´ıguez-GaravitoandDianaRodr´ıguez-Franco Published online by Cambridge University Press UnstableConstitutionalism:LawandPoliticsinSouthAsia EditedbyMarkTushnetandMadhavKhosla MagnaCartaandItsModernLegacy EditedbyRobertHazellandJamesMelton ConstitutionsandReligiousFreedom FrankB.Cross InternationalCourtsandthePerformanceofInternationalAgreements:AGeneralTheorywith EvidencefromtheEuropeanUnion CliffordJ.CarrubbaandMatthewJ.Gabel ReputationandJudicialTactics:ATheoryofNationalandInternationalCourts ShaiDothan SocialDifferenceandConstitutionalisminPan-Asia EditedbySusanH.Williams ConstitutionalisminAsiaintheEarlyTwenty-FirstCentury EditedbyAlbertH.Y.Chen ConstitutionsinAuthoritarianRegimes EditedbyTomGinsburgandAlbertoSimpser PresidentialLegislationinIndia:TheLawandPracticeofOrdinances ShubhankarDam SocialandPoliticalFoundationsofConstitutions EditedbyDenisJ.GalliganandMilaVersteeg ConsequentialCourts:JudicialRolesinGlobalPerspective EditedbyDianaKapiszewski,GordonSilverstein,andRobertA.Kagan ComparativeConstitutionalDesign EditedbyTomGinsburg Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press Constitutionalism and a Right to Effective Government? Editedby VICKI C. JACKSON HarvardLawSchool YASMIN DAWOOD UniversityofToronto Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781009158534 doi:10.1017/9781009158541 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2022 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2022 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-009-15853-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press Forourchildrenandgrandchildren,maytheygrowtohelphumanrights flourishandgovernmentsworkwelltorepresent,protect,andrespectall humanbeings. Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press
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