Dynamic constitutional stability

Abstract/Contents

Abstract: This dissertation has four objectives. Building on the contributions of Friedrich Hayek and Douglass North, it demonstrates the importance of organizational learning and "adaptive efficiency" (North 2005) in accounting for the stability of institutions -- especially in periods of rapid change. Second, it applies this perspective to what I call the problem of dynamic constitutional stability, or why some constitutions are better at responding to change and crisis, and thus surviving, than others. Third, it argues that creating dynamic stability by building a constitution capable of responding to change was the central concern of Federalists in designing the Federal Constitution of 1787. Fourth, it offers a new institutional framework to consider classic questions of constitutional and statutory interpretation and the role of the judiciary in the American constitutional system.

Type of resource	text
Form	electronic; electronic resource; remote
Extent	1 online resource.
Publication date	2010
Issuance	monographic
Language	English

Associated with	Mittal, Sonia
Associated with	Stanford University, Department of Political Science.
Primary advisor	Weingast, Barry R
Thesis advisor	Weingast, Barry R
Thesis advisor	Kramer, Larry
Thesis advisor	Ober, Josiah
Thesis advisor	Rakove, Jack N, 1947-
Advisor	Kramer, Larry
Advisor	Ober, Josiah
Advisor	Rakove, Jack N, 1947-

Genre	Theses

Statement of responsibility	Sonia Mittal.
Note	Submitted to the Department of Political Science.
Thesis	Ph.D. Stanford University 2010
Location	electronic resource

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