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Book Review: Donald L. Horowitz: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
No full textBook Review of the Monograph: Horowitz, Donald L. (2013), Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (= Series: Problems of International Politics, 4), ISBN: 9781107641150, 342 page
Book Review: Donald L. Horowitz: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
No full textBook Review of the Monograph: Horowitz, Donald L. (2013), Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia ; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (= Series: Problems of International Politics, 4), ISBN: 9781107641150, 342 page
Federalism for Severely Divided Societies: Possibilities and Pathologies
No full textProfessor Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University, delivers the Annual Bernstein Lecture in Comparative Law titled Federalism for Severely Divided Societies: Possibilities and Pathologies. The lecture was co-sponsored by Duke\u27s Center for International & Comparative Law
A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society
No full textCan a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these obstacles, and he describes institutions that offer constitution makers the best chance for a democratic future.South Africa is generally considered an isolated case, a country unlike any other. Drawing on his extensive experience of racially and ethnically divided societies, however, Horowitz brings South Africa back into African and comparative politics. Experience gained in Nigeria, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and other divided societies around the world is relevant because, as South Africa leaves apartheid behind, it will still confront problems of pluralism: racial, ethnic, and ideological. Countries like South Africa, Horowitz argues, must develop institutions capable of coping with such divisions.Reviewing an array of constitutional proposals for South Africa - group rights, consociation, partition, binationalism, and an enhanced role for the judiciary - Horowitz shows that most are inappropriate for the country's problems, or else run afoul of some major ideological taboo. Institutions that are both apt and acceptable do exist, however. These are premised on the need to create incentives for accommodation across group lines. In the final chapter, Horowitz makes a major contribution to the theory of democratization as he considers how commitments to democracy might be extracted even from political groups with undemocratic objectives.Ranging skillfully across studies of social distance and stereotypes, electoral and party systems, constitutions and judiciaries, conflict and accommodation, and negotiation and democratization, Horowitz displays a broad comparative vision. His innovative study will change the way theorists and practitioners approach the task of making democracy work in difficult conditions
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Constitutional processes and democratic commitment /
No full textFrom one of our leading scholars of comparative constitutionalism, advice for everyone involved in the surprisingly common practice of constitution-writing. Enhancing prospects for democracy is an important objective in the process of creating a new constitution. Donald L. Horowitz argues that constitutional processes ought to be geared to securing commitment to democracy by those who participate in constitutional processes. Using evidence from numerous constitutional processes, he makes a strong case for a process intended to increase the likelihood of a democratic outcome
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
No full textModerator:
Madeline Morris, Associate Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Presenter:
William J. Fenrick, Senior Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal
Discussants:
Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Winston P. Nagan, Professor of Law, University of Florida College of Law
Christopher C. Joyner, Professor of International Law, Department of Government, Georgetown Universit
Lectures by Donald Horowtz in Sri Lanka
No full textThe James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, Donald L. Horowitz, is visiting Sri Lanka on a short visit. During his stay, Prof. Horowitz will deliver lectures at the University of Peradeniya and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo. The lecture at the University of Peradeniya is titled "Ethnic power sharing in theory and practice" and will be held at the Arts Faculty Seminar Room on Monday, 27 January at 3.0..
Lectures by Donald Horowtz in Sri Lanka
No full textThe James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, Donald L. Horowitz, is visiting Sri Lanka on a short visit. During his stay, Prof. Horowitz will deliver lectures at the University of Peradeniya and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo. The lecture at the University of Peradeniya is titled "Ethnic power sharing in theory and practice" and will be held at the Arts Faculty Seminar Room on Monday, 27 January at 3.0..
Donald L. Horowitz. The deadly ethnic riot. Berkeley-Los Angeles : University of California, 2001. 588 p.
No full textWhere Have All the Parties Gone? Fraenkel and Grofman on the Alternative Vote - Yet Again
No full textThe alternative vote (AV) is a preferential electoral system that tends to reward political moderation and compromise. Fraenkel and Grofman have repeatedly attempted to show that AV is not conducive to inter-ethnic moderation in severely divided societies. In this response to their latest attempt,the author points out that neither political party coordination of the vote nor strategic voting plays any part in their analysis. In contrast, he explains how moderate parties of one ethnic group are able to induce their supporters to cast ballots for moderate parties supported by voters of another ethnic group. Prof. Horowitz also explains why the incentives for parties to arrange interethnic vote transfers are much greater under AV than they are under systems such as single transferable vote, which is in use in Northern Ireland, and shows that Fraenkel and Grofman\u27s interpretations of AV\u27s operation in Australia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, and Papua-New Guinea are contrary to the evidence
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