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SPA Policy Explainer: Constituents Before Assembly

Does a new constitution improve a country’s levels of democracy? This is the question a team of professors asked and analyzed for their new book: Constituents before Assembly: Participation, Deliberation, and Representation in the Crafting of New Constitutions. In the last 40 years, 119 countries have rewritten or established new constitutions. Professor Todd Eisenstadt from the School of Public Affairs, Professor Carl LeVan from the School of International Service; and Professor Tofigh Maboudi, SPA/PhD ’16, from Loyola University Chicago conclude in their book that countries that broadly included their constituents early in the convening and drafting process are the ones that see higher levels of democracy following the ratification of a new constitution. This finding rejects the common belief that democracy stems from the content of constitutions rather than how they are created. For more information, visit www.american.edu/spa