Transition, constitution-making and separation in Czechoslovakia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5019013
AutoresJon Elster (0000-0002-9543-1780, University of Chicago, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen36
Número1
Páginas105-134
Fecha de publicación1995-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003975600007128
OpenAlexW2105961881
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas5

This article discusses political developments in Czechoslovakia and the two successor states from November 1989 to the end of 1992. Three main topics are explored: the failure to write a new constitution for Czechoslovakia, the breakup of the country, and the making of new constitutions in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The author argues against the view that the breakup of the Czechoslovak federation was analogous to the breakup of the Yugoslav or Soviet federations. Instead he suggests the inherent instability of any two-member federation as the structural cause, and economic conflicts as the triggering cause, of the breakup

Breakup · Constitution · Czech · Economic history · Mechanics · Physics · Political economy · Political instability · Political science · Politics · Slovak · Sociology · Successor cardinal · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Law · Philosophy