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Towards a Research Agenda on the Emergence of (Informal) Constitutional Culture into (Formal) Constitutional Order

By
  • Nikolai Wenzel

Originally published in Studies in Emergent Order

A simple and sobering glance at the world tells us that constitutionalism is rare and fragile. And that the challenges of constitutionalism are not mere academic preoccupations for constitutional political economists.

 

A simple and sobering glance at the world tells us that constitutionalism is rare and fragile. And that the challenges of constitutionalism are not mere academic preoccupations for constitutional political economists. Indeed, according to
the Freedom of the World 2011 survey, less than half the world's population (43%, living in 87 countries) is considered to be free. The balance of the world is ranked as partly free (22% of the population, living in 60 countries) or not free (35%, living in 48 countries). 

A simple and sobering glance at the world tells us that constitutionalism is rare and fragile. And that the challenges of constitutionalism are not mere academic preoccupations for constitutional political economists. Indeed, according tothe Freedom of the World 2011 survey, less than half the world's population (43%, living in 87 countries) is considered to be free. The balance of the world is ranked as partly free (22% of the population, living in 60 countries) or not free (35%, living in 48 countries). 

 

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