Although Professor Tarun Khaitan states that the main purpose of his thought-provoking article is theoretical rather than practical, my observations are based on the experience of my own country, Sri Lanka, and some other countries I am familiar with…
Read MoreTarunabh Khaitan has provided us with a rich and multi-layered account of key questions in constitutional design. Early constitutional responses to concerns over democratic backsliding often focused on institutions and mechanisms…
Read MoreTarunabh Khaitan (2021) has written an excellent and rich contribution to an important interdisciplinary debate on democracy’s constitutional design. While some of his preferred design choices are close to what we find in Australia…
Read MoreTarunabh Khaitan’s characteristically emphatically written paper – Balancing Accountability and Effectiveness: A Case for Moderated Parliamentarism - is a complex and layered account of the blind spots of constitutional and political scientists…
Read More“Balancing Accountability and Effectiveness: A Case for Moderated Parliamentarism” by Tarunabh Khaitan is a rich and thoughtful defense and expansion of Ganghof’s model of semi-parliamentarism. Like in Ganghof’s formulation, the constitutional structure…
Read MoreTarunabh Khaitan’s new article is an important addition to the rare constitutional literature combining the key factors that explain the optimal functioning of the political system, i.e., political parties, legislative-executive relations, and electoral rules…
Read MoreTarunabh Khaitan’s proposal for what he calls “moderated parliamentarism” is convincing. Like many political scientists, his focus is on ensuring that the institutions of representative democracy deliver for the interests of all people, rather than a sub-section…
Read MoreIf Tarun Khaitan wasn’t such a nice chap, you’d really have to dislike him. Having written perhaps the most important book on discrimination law of the past decade or so, he has now turned his attention to the constitutional design of electoral institutions…
Read MoreI am very grateful to the IACL Blog for organising this symposium on my forthcoming paper in defence of ‘moderated parliamentarism’ that will appear in the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law. In this article, I bring two key issues in constitutional studies…
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