Arbeitspapier
The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database
This article introduces a novel database that measures governments' compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we aggregate into an overall indicator of constitutional compliance: property rights and the rule of law, political rights, civil rights, and basic human rights. The database covers 175 countries over the period 1900 to 2020 and can be used by researchers interested in studying the determinants or the effects of (non)compliance with constitutions. Our investigation of the stylized facts of constitutional compliance reveals a long-term increase in compliance, which occurred primarily around the year 1990. The Americas experienced the steepest increase in compliance, but also Africa and Europe improved particularly at the end of the Cold War. Democracies ― particularly those with parliamentary and mixed systems ― show more constitutional compliance than nondemocracies, among which military dictatorships perform the worst. Constitutional design also matters: Constitutions that allow for the dismissal of the head of state or government for violating constitutional rules are being complied with more.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10249
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Basic Areas of Law: General (Constitutional Law)
Human Rights Law; Gender Law
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Comparative Studies of Countries
Other Economic Systems: Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
- Thema
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constitutional compliance
constitutional economics
constitutional political economy
de jure-de facto gap
governance indicators
measurement of institutions
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gutmann, Jerg
Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna
Voigt, Stefan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gutmann, Jerg
- Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna
- Voigt, Stefan
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2023
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