Publications

Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus came from the study of the American and French constituent assemblies in the late eighteenth century,...
Co-written with Karen Barkey and Sudipta Kaviraj, published by Oxford University Press. Abstract: Revises prevailing understandings of simplistic East-West; Secular-Religious; and Democratic-Authoritarian binaries. Presents a three-way comparison between Turkey, India and Pakistan Applies a unique...
Stephen Skowronek
A powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in steady hands, due deliberation...
Ian Shapiro
In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use...
Bruce Ackerman
Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-sighted book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents an intuitive, practical alternative. He...
Bruce Ackerman
A pioneering study of dynamics of politics and technocracy that generated mistaken policies that still haunt environmental law today. This publication is available on the following site(s): Amazon
Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin argue that Americans can revitalize their democracy and break the cycle of cynical media manipulation that is crippling public life. They propose a new national holiday―Deliberation Day―for each presidential election year. On this day people throughout the country...
Bruce Ackerman
A study of the uncertain constitutional foundations of private property in American law and a discussion of two vastly different methods by which courts may resolve the confusion. This publication is available on the following site(s): Yale University Press
Bruce Ackerman
This publication is available on the following site(s): Amazon
Bruce Ackerman
Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds—or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce Ackerman showed that Americans have repeatedly rejected this view. Now he draws on a quarter century of...