TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carugati,Federica
TI  - Creating a Constitution: Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens 
SN  - 9780691195636
AV  - KL4361 .C37 2019
U1  - 320.938 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - Greece
KW  - Athens
KW  - To 146 B.C
KW  - Democracy
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Law
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Athens before the Crisis --; 2. Constitution and Consensus --; 3. Stability and Innovation in Athenian Policy --; 4. The Institutional Foundations of Prosperity --; 5. The Paths Not Taken --; Conclusion --; Appendix A. Piraeus' Geography --; Appendix B. Piraeus' History --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe live in an era of constitution-making. More than half of the world's constitutions have been drafted in the past half-century. Yet, one question still eludes theorists and practitioners alike: how do stable, growth-enhancing constitutional structures emerge and endure? In Creating a Constitution, Federica Carugati argues that ancient Athens offers a unique laboratory for exploring this question. Because the city-state was reasonably well-documented, smaller than most modern nations, and simpler in its institutional makeup, the case of Athens reveals key factors of successful constitution-making that are hard to flesh out in more complex settings.Carugati demonstrates that the institutional changes Athens undertook in the late fifth century BCE, after a period of war and internal strife, amounted to a de facto constitution. The constitution restored stability and allowed the democracy to flourish anew. The analysis of Athens's case reveals the importance of three factors for creating a successful constitution: first, a consensus on a set of shared values capable of commanding long-term support; second, a self-enforcing institutional structure that reflects those values; and, third, regulatory mechanisms for policymaking that enable tradeoffs of inclusion to foster growth without jeopardizing stability.Uniquely combining institutional analysis, political economy, and history, Creating a Constitution is a compelling account of how political and economic goals that we normally associate with Western developed countries were once achieved through different institutional arrangements
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