we generate and mobilize knowledge in support of constitutional transitions

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Our Work
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Partners
We work with a global network of Multilateral Organizations, Think Tanks and NGOs.

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Publications

Decentralization in Unitary States
This Report explores how decentralization in unitary countries can deepen democratic values and improve the quality of life and human security in neglected communities.
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Minority Rights in Culturally Diverse Societies
This Working Paper examines how cultural diversity should be reflected in the constitutional and governmental arrangements of countries emerging from dictatorship or oppression.
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Oil and Natural Gas
This Report examines the constitutional frameworks for oil and natural gas, and is of particular importance to countries with significant natural resources.
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Political Party Finance Regulation
This Working Paper examines how to regulate political party finance in new democracies to ensure effective political competition while limiting the improper influence of clientelism, vote buying, and business.
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Combatting Corruption
This Report considers the constitutional frameworks and mechanisms available to prevent and reduce corruption.
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Dealing with the Creation of Constituent Units in Federal and Politically Devolved Regimes
This Policy Manual aids practitioners and advisers addressing how to define or delimit constituent territorial units within federal or politically devolved countries.
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Democracy Without Political Parties
This Working Paper addresses the role of political parties in democracies, and asks if an effective and democratically accountable government can exist without political parties.
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Creation of Constituent Units in Federal Systems
This Working Paper looks at the experiences of over 20 federal and quasi-federal countries in defining new territorial regions or “constituent units”.
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Semi-Presidentialism as Power Sharing
This Report analyzes how semi-presidential government can promote power sharing and ensure that presidential dictatorship does not re-emerge in post-authoritarian democracies.
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Constitutional Courts after the Arab Spring
This Report investigates how constitutional court appointment procedures can promote both judicial independence and accountability in a new democracy.
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Our Approach

We Partner with Front-Line Organizations

Our partners are a global network of multilateral organizations, think tanks and NGOs. Our partners are involved at every stage of our work — project conceptualization, recruitment of experts, workshops and conferences, and the drafting, publication and dissemination of outputs.

We Generate Evidence-based Policy Options

Our projects produce tools for decision-makers that equip them to design better and more effective constitution building processes. Our work is field-driven, and designed for use in the field.

We Generate Evidence-based Policy Options

Our projects produce tools for decision-makers that equip them to design better and more effective constitution building processes. Our work is field-driven, and designed for use in the field.

we produce agenda-setting research

Our research pursues an important scholarly agenda, by examining issues that have been under-examined and which are of great contemporary significance. We bring together theory and practice, making both stronger in the process.

We create global knowledge networks

Our projects are built around expert networks. Together with our partners, we bring together senior policy practitioners and leading scholars who have vast field experience and are engaged at the forefront of their fields. We have worked with over 50 experts from more than 25 countries.

We create global knowledge networks

Our projects are built around expert networks. Together with our partners, we bring together senior policy practitioners and leading scholars who have vast field experience and are engaged at the forefront of their fields. We have worked with over 50 experts from more than 25 countries.