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DESIGNS FOR DEMOCRATIC STABILITY

Comparative Politics Series

Gregory S. Mahler, Editor

POWER AND RITUAL IN THE ISRAEL LABOR PARTY

A Study in Political Anthropology

Myron J. Aronoff

COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SYSTEMS

Policy Performance and Social Change

Charles F. Andrain

DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE INSTITUTIONS

A Comparative View

David M. Olson

BLAMING THE GOVERNMENT

Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies

Christopher Anderson

POLITICAL CULTURE AND CONSTITUTIONALISM

A Comparative Approach

Edited by Daniel P. Franklin and Michael J. Baun

CORPORATISM AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS

The Other Great Ism

Howard J. Wiarda

THE POLITICS OF ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

A Comparative Study

Raymond Tatalovich

DESIGNS FOR DEMOCRATIC STABILITY

Studies in Viable Constitutionalism

Edited by Abdo I. Baaklini and Helen Desfosses

COMPARATIVE POLITICS SERIES

DESIGNS FOR DEMOCRATIC STABILITY

Studies in Viable Constitutionalism

Abdo I. Baaklini and
Helen Desfosses, Editors

First published 1997 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Designs for democratic stability : studies in viable constitutionalism / edited by Abdo I. Baaklini and Helen Desfosses.

p. cm.(Comparative politics)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7656-0051-X (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 0-7656-0052-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Comparative government.

2. Constitutional history.

3. Democracy.

4. Political stability.

5. Representative government and representation.

I. Baaklini, Abdo I.

II. Desfosses, Helen.

III. Series: Comparative politics (Armonk, N.Y.)

JF51.D475 1997

321.8dc21

96-36920

CIP

ISBN 13: 9780765600523 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 9780765600516 (hbk)

For my sons, Farid and Iskandar Baaklini

Abdo Baaklini

For my son, Adam Cohn

Helen Desfosses

Contents

Viable Constitutionalism and Democratic Political Stability

Abdo I. Baaklini

The Westminster Model Away from Westminster: Is it Always the Most Appropriate Model?

Gregory S. Mahler

The U.S. Presidential System as a Model for the World

James L. Sundquist

Bureaucracy: Control, Responsiveness, Performance

Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman

Bureaucracy and Viable Constitutionalism

Fred W. Riggs

Legislative Structure and Constitutional Viability in Societies Undergoing Democratic Transition

Abdo I. Baaklini

The Constitution as an Instrument of Political Cohesion in Postcolonial States: The Case of India, 19501993

T. V. Sathyamurthy

Constitutional Viability and Political Institutions in Turkish Democracy

Ersin Kalayciolu

Can Viable Constitutionalism Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia?

Erik P. Hoffmann

Democratic Consolidation: Institutional, Economic, and External Dimensions

Diane Ethier

Globalization and the Residual State: The Challenge to Viable Constitutionalism

Philip G. Cerny

Joel D. Aberbach

Joel D. Aberbach is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight, coauthor with Bert A. Rockman of The Administrative State in Industrialized Democracies, and coauthor with Robert D. Putnam and Bert A. Rockman of Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies.

Abdo I. Baaklini

Abdo I. Baaklini, coeditor of this volume, is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is also Director of the Center for Legislative Development at the University. Dr. Baaklini has published extensively in the area of legislatures, their roles, and their administrative needs. He is the author, most recently, of The Brazilian Legislature and Political System, and a forthcoming publication, Legislatures in the Middle East: Their Role during Transition to Democracy.

Philip G. Cerny

Philip G. Cerny is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York, United Kingdom. He has been a Guest Scholar at Harvard University and the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Changing Architecture of Politics: Structure, Agency, and the Future of the State, and Plurilateralism: Structural Differentiation and Functional Conflict in the Post-Cold War World.

Helen Desfosses

Helen Desfosses, coeditor of this volume, is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy and Africana Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Legislative Development at the University, and has consulted on legislative development in several countries. She is coeditor of Socialism in the Third World, and is engaged in a study titled Agenda-Setting in United States African Policy. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Diane Ethier

Diane Ethier is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universit de Montral. She is the author of several works on economic liberalization and political democratization. Her most recent writings concern the process of economic adjustment and democratic consolidation in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico. Her forthcoming publication is Economic Adjustment in New Democracies: Lessons from Southern Europe.

Erik P. Hoffmann

Erik P. Hoffmann is Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York. He has written several works on the challenges to viable constitutionalism in post-Soviet Russia. He is the author, most recently, of

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