Why Do Countries Adopt Constitutional Review

By Tom Ginsburg, Mila Versteeg. 2014

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Subfields: Law, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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• Constitutional Courts in Comparative Perspective: A Theoretical Assessment (2015, background): “Ginsburg & Versteeg (2014), using a dataset that covers roughly 200 countries over a 200-year period, find clear evidence that electoral competitiveness (defined as the ratio of legislative seats held by the two largest parties) is a major predictor of the adoption of a system of constitutional…”