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- Title
The Enabling Role of Democratic Constitutionalism: Fixed Rules and Some Implications for Contested Presidential Elections.
- Authors
Issacharoff, Samuel
- Abstract
Focuses on the role of the constitution in a purely functional account of democratic governance in the U.S. Argument about the necessity of relatively fixed rules of electoral accountability and minority protection as a condition of democratic governance as reflected in the book 'Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality,' by Jon Elster; Enabling role of constitutional constraints as allowing democratic politics to flourish; Application of the idea of precommitment to the disputes over the 2000 U.S. presidential elections between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CONSTITUTIONS; DEMOCRACY; ULYSSES &; the Sirens (Book); COMMITMENT (Psychology); UNITED States presidential elections
- Publication
Texas Law Review, 2003, Vol 81, Issue 7, p1985
- ISSN
0040-4411
- Publication type
Article