Constitutional Choices Turned into Simple In-Period Choices: A Power Relations Reading of the Chadian and Cameroonian Constitutions

Thomas Cedric Eboutou ()
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Thomas Cedric Eboutou: Université de Montréal

Chapter Chapter 13 in Behind a Veil of Ignorance?, 2015, pp 223-237 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this study we apply a methodology proposed by Imbeau and Jacob to test the veil of ignorance hypothesis in the Chadian and Cameroonian cases. In a first step, we present the context that led to the making of the Chadian and Cameroonian constitutions and in a second step, we analyze, in the light of that context, the uncertainty measures derived from a content analysis of those constitutions. Overall, our evidences are mixed: our uncertainty measures are sometimes found to be rather counterintuitive. We suggest that in cases where there are presumably legal writing styles and traditions, content analysis-based measures of uncertainty can be noisy.

Keywords: Political Party; Prime Minister; Power Relation; Presidential Election; Political Parti (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14953-0_13

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