Explaining state constitutional changes

Colonial Cousins: Explaining India and Canada's Unwritten Constitutional Principles

Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Culture

Constitutional theorists and other constitutional commentators make heavy use of a paradigm that mistakes certain aspects of our current constitutional decisionmaking process for inherent parts of our constitutional structure and ignores other important aspects of that process entirely. These distortions and elisions raise concerns about the accuracy of much descriptive constitutional commentar...

Explaining Minority-State Bargaining in Multinational States

Explaining State Black Imprisonment Rates 1983-1999

This paper addresses the problem of rising Black/White disparities in imprisonment and seeks to determine factors predicting which states will have the highest Black imprisonment rates for various offenses. Annual state imprisonment rates for 1983-1999 are calculated from the Correctional Populations of the United States (CPUS) and National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) data. Dependent v...

Constitutional Economics/Constitutional Politics

Why does the treatment of American constitutional politics presented in We the People depart so radically from models of constitutional deliberation developed in the type of constitutional economics pioneered by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock? The paper defines three premises that account for the divergence, and concludes by proposing an inquiry into constitutional design that requires insig...