title: 9 CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN: AN OXYMORON?
abstract: Now that the latest wave of worldwide democratization has apparendy ended, debates have begun about institutions appropriate to the consolidation of new democracies.Lively controversies have raged about the respective merits of presidential and parliamentary systems, proportional and plurality electoral systems, unitary and federal governments. 1No sooner have these debates captured the imagination of academicians and policymakers than it has become clear that a peculiar set of problems surround
journal: New York University Press eBooks