Constitutional Conventions in the Digital Era: Lessons from Iceland and Ireland
Mechanisms of constitutional development have recently attracted significant attention, specifically, instances where popular involvement was central to the constitutional change. Examples include attempts by British Columbia, the Netherlands, and Ontario at electoral reform, in addition to the more...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:10040222 2023-12-24T10:17:43+01:00 Constitutional Conventions in the Digital Era: Lessons from Iceland and Ireland Suteu, S 2015-05-18 text https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040222/1/Suteu,%20Constitutional%20Conventions%20in%20the%20Digital%20Era.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040222/ eng eng Boston College Law School https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040222/1/Suteu,%20Constitutional%20Conventions%20in%20the%20Digital%20Era.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040222/ open Boston College International and Comparative Law Review , 38 (2) pp. 251-276. (2015) constitutional conventions constitution-making participatory democracy crowdsourcing Iceland Ireland Article 2015 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:29Z Mechanisms of constitutional development have recently attracted significant attention, specifically, instances where popular involvement was central to the constitutional change. Examples include attempts by British Columbia, the Netherlands, and Ontario at electoral reform, in addition to the more sweeping reforms sought in Iceland and Ireland. Each of these countries’ attempts exemplifies varied innovative avenues to reform involving participatory and partially citizen-led processes aimed at revitalizing politics. The little legal scholarship on these developments has provided an insufficient analytical account of such novel approaches to constitution-making. This Essay seeks to build upon the current descriptive work on constitutional conventions by focusing on the cases of Iceland and Ireland. The Essay further aims to evaluate whether the means undertaken by each country translates into novelty at a more substantive level, namely, the quality of the process and legitimacy of the end product. The Essay proposes standards of direct democratic engagements that adequately fit these new developments and further identifies lessons for participatory constitution-making processes in the digital twenty-first century. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University College London: UCL Discovery |
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Mechanisms of constitutional development have recently attracted significant attention, specifically, instances where popular involvement was central to the constitutional change. Examples include attempts by British Columbia, the Netherlands, and Ontario at electoral reform, in addition to the more sweeping reforms sought in Iceland and Ireland. Each of these countries’ attempts exemplifies varied innovative avenues to reform involving participatory and partially citizen-led processes aimed at revitalizing politics. The little legal scholarship on these developments has provided an insufficient analytical account of such novel approaches to constitution-making. This Essay seeks to build upon the current descriptive work on constitutional conventions by focusing on the cases of Iceland and Ireland. The Essay further aims to evaluate whether the means undertaken by each country translates into novelty at a more substantive level, namely, the quality of the process and legitimacy of the end product. The Essay proposes standards of direct democratic engagements that adequately fit these new developments and further identifies lessons for participatory constitution-making processes in the digital twenty-first century. |
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Constitutional Conventions in the Digital Era: Lessons from Iceland and Ireland |
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Constitutional Conventions in the Digital Era: Lessons from Iceland and Ireland |
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Constitutional Conventions in the Digital Era: Lessons from Iceland and Ireland |
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Constitutional Conventions in the Digital Era: Lessons from Iceland and Ireland |
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Constitutional Conventions in the Digital Era: Lessons from Iceland and Ireland |
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constitutional conventions in the digital era: lessons from iceland and ireland |
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Boston College Law School |
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https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040222/1/Suteu,%20Constitutional%20Conventions%20in%20the%20Digital%20Era.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040222/ |
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