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Constitutional government and liberal freedoms : lessons from Argentina

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Pincione, Guido
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2001-11
Abstract
I shall argue that constitutional documents (such as the bill of rights) are largely ineffective in fostering liberal freedoms. These primarily depend on main political groups reaching an equilibrium favorable to liberal values. I use here the game-theoretical concept of “equilibrium,” which, roughly, points to a situation where interacting individuals have an incentive to keep behaving as they do. Equilibrium on liberal values, I shall also argue, is in turn the result of factors exogenous to the incentive structure that constitutional rules impose on political actors. The procedural rules of a constitution, rather than its bill of rights, play a central role in promoting liberal freedoms once some such equilibrium is already in place. Or so I shall try to show. Some episodes in Argentine constitutional history will serve to illustrate these theses.
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Página de ayuda al investigador
Horarios de atención
Campus Alcorta
Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350 (C1428BCW)
Sáenz Valiente 1010 (C1428BIJ)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
P: (54 11) 5169 7000