Participatory Constitutional Change: The People as Amenders of the Constitution
Xenophon Contiades, Alkmene Fotiadou - Routledge, 2016
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This
book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in
constitutional change. It traces the reasons underlying this tendency,
the new ways in which it takes form, the possibilities of success and
failure of such ventures as well as the risks and benefits it carries.
To do so, it examines the theoretical aspects of public participation in
constitutional decision-making, offers an analysis of the benefits
gained and the problems encountered in countries with long-standing
experience in the practice of constitutional referendums, discusses the
recent innovative constitution-making processes employed in Iceland and
Ireland in the post financial crisis context and probes the use of
public participation in the EU context. New modes of deliberation are
juxtaposed to traditional direct-democratic processes, while the reasons
behind this re-emergence of public involvement narratives are discussed
from the aspect of comparative constitutional design. The synthetic
chapter offers an overview of the emerging normative and comparative
issues and provides a holistic approach of the role of the people in
constitutional change in an attempt to answer when, where and how this
role may be successfully enhanced. The work consists of material
specifically written for this volume, and authored by prominent
constitutional scholars and experts in public participation and
deliberative processes.
