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Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 12, Number 4, pp. 815-842
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Coping with conflict at constitutional moments

Johan P. Olsen

University of Oslo, Box 1143, Blindern, 0317Oslo, Norway. Email: j.p.olsen{at}arena.uio.no.

Abstract

The theme of this paper is the dynamics through which political order and organized government is constituted and reconstituted in democratic contexts. Key questions are how basic political rules evolve and change and the possible significance of reflection, deliberate design and explicit constitutional policy. In democracies a focus on reflection and choice requires an understanding of how political support is mobilized and acquiescence, agreement and allegiance are achieved. It is important to analyze how constitution making may turn a political system with enduring tensions and conflicts into an organized system of democratic governance, cooperation and problem solving.


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