CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRATISATION
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A Padova
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Tipologia
Corso
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Luogo
Padova
Students’ preparation will be assessed through a written exam composed of both a conceptual analysis and a practical exercise reflecting on issues presented and discussed in class.
Class attendance is not mandatory. Accordingly, attending and non attending students will take the SAME exam.
However, it should be noted that attending students' performance in the test will highly benefit from the participation in role plays and case study based exercises carried out in class.
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Programma
Self assessment test on basic concepts relevant to Constitutional law
Opening debate: Q1 "The spread of general principles of human rights and constitutional, representative government based on the rule of law: spurs for development or desirable outcomes of development?" Q2 "Cultural specificity and Constitutional law: are regionally-adapted versions of constitutionalism a viable solution?"
Week 2 Domestic and External Factors in Transitions towards Democracy – Part 1
Constitution-Making and Constitutional Amendment Processes
Week 3 Domestic and External Factors in Transitions towards Democracy – Part 2
Transition through Elections (electoral assistance; electoral observation; political rights protection and international standards; electoral laws; electoral justice; electoral management bodies; elections in post conflict societies; electoral violence)
Week 4 Institutional Framework and Transitions Towards Democracy
Illiberal, fragile and unstable democracies: forms of State and forms of Government under stress; State and religion in more recently adopted Constitutions; parliamentary or presidential? Is there a preferable type of executive to foster democratic longevity?
Week 5 Democratisation and Countermajoritarian Institutions
Judicial review and Constitutional adjudication; systems of constitutional adjudication in new democracies: structural and functional approach
Week 6 Society and Economic Transition
Democratisation, inequality and the Constitution: (transition toward a) market based economy, enforcement of social and economic rights and poverty as a constitutional challenge; gender and the Constitution
Week 7 Ethnic Conflict and Federal Structure
Territorial arrangements and conflict resolution; integration or accomodation?; minority rights and the Constitution.
Week 8 Lessons Learned
Selected students’ presentations on assigned case studies
Final discussion: Is there an ideal constitutional framework for Countries transitioning towards democracy?
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CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRATISATION