PUBLICATIONS
 
Below is a list of select publications and working papers which use data from the Comparative Constitutions Project.

If you have used CCP data in one of your publications and it is not listed below, please send the title of your paper to James Melton, so we can add your paper to our list. Also, if you have used data from the CCP and would like the replication materials from your project included on our site, please send those materials to James Melton.

 
PUBLISHED PAPERS
 

2010

Elkins, Zachary. 2010. "Diffusion and the Constitutionalization of Europe." Comparative Political Studies, 43.8: 969-999.

2009

Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton. 2009. The Endurance of National Constitutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Online Appendix

Ginsburg, Tom, and Zachary Elkins. 2009. "Ancillary Powers of Constitutional Courts." Texas Law Review, 87.7: 1431-1461.

Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, and Justin Blount. 2009. "Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?" Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 5: 201-223.

Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, and Justin Blount. 2009. "Citizen as Founder: Public Participation in Constitutional Approval." Temple University Law Review, 81.2: 361-382. (reprinted in Spanish in the inaugural issue of Revista Digital de Ciencia Politica del Ecuador.)

2008

Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton. 2008. "Military Occupations and their Constitutional Residue." APSA-CP Newsletter, 19: 7-10.

Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton. 2008. "Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul...: Constitution Making in Occupied States." William and Mary Law Review, 49: 1139-1178. Online Appendix

Ginsburg, Tom, Zachary Elkins, and Svitlana Chernykh. 2008. "Commitment and Diffusion: How and Why National Constitutions Incorporate International Law." University of Illinois Law Review, 201-238.

Lipson, Jonathan. 2008. "Debt and Democracy: Towards a Constitutional Theory of Bankruptcy." Notre Dame Law Review, 83: 605-696.

2007

Elkins, Zachary, and John Sides. 2007. "Can Institutions Build Unity in Multiethnic States?" American Political Science Review, 101: 693-708.

Garoupa, Nuno, and Tom Ginsburg. 2007. "The Economics of Judicial Councils." Berkeley Program in Law & Economics. Latin America and Caribbean Law and Economics Association Annual Papers.

2006

Ginsburg, Tom. 2006. "Locking in Democracy: Constitutions, Commitment and International Law." New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 38: 707-760.

Horowitz, Donald l. 2006. "Constitutional Courts: A Primer for Decision Makers." Journal of Democracy, 17: 125-137.

 
WORKING PAPERS
 

2009

Aaken, Anne van, and Stefan Voigt. 2009. "Do Individual Disclosure Rules for Parliamentarians Improve Government Effectiveness?" unpublished manuscript.

2008

Cheibub, Jose, Zachary Elkins, and Tom Ginsburg. "On the Hybridization of Constitutional Form: The Case of Executive-Legislative Relations." unpublished manuscript.

Sill, Kaitlyn, Caroline Payne. 2008. "The Effect of Domestic Institutions on International Human rights Treaties." presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.

2007

Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton. 2007. "The Lifespan of a Constitutional System." unpublished manuscript.

Carey, John. 2007. "Does It Matter How a Constitution Is Created?." presented at the Conference on Exporting Democracy: What Democracies Can and Cannot Do, University of Texas, April 20-21, 2007.

2005

Ginsburg, Tom, and Zachary Elkins. 2005. "Commentary on the Iraqi Draft Constitution." unpublished manuscript.

 

 

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