Transition, constitution-making and separation in Czechoslovakia

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ID5019013
AutoresJon Elster (0000-0002-9543-1780, University of Chicago, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume36
Fascículo1
Páginas105-134
Data de publicação1995-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003975600007128
OpenAlexW2105961881
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências 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