CHAPTER 4. Constitutional Reform in the GDR, 1989–1990: Historical Background and the Round Table Draft

This chapter examines the territorial dynamics behind Bolivia’s constitutional transition of 2006–08 and the political process during that period. Evo Morales’s landslide win in the presidential election of December 2005 set the stage for a protracted constitutional transformation that is still playing out in Bolivia. The chapter first provides a historical background on Bolivian politics marked by constitutional, legal, and policy reform and periods of social unrest, political mobilization, and popular revolt before discussing the period of constitutional engagement and the outcome of the 2009 general elections. It argues that territorial cleavages played a crucial role in Bolivia’s constitutional transition, which broadened territorial support for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) from western enclaves to the eastern lowlands over a five-year period. The chapter also identifies two key institutions that secured the broad legitimacy for constitutional reform: an impartial electoral court and a functioning constitutional tribunal.

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On the 77th anniversary of Kostroma Region restoration (scientific discussion in the information centre of Kostroma Region administration)

Bulletin of the Kostroma state University ◽

10.34216/1998-0817-2021-27-4-204-208 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 204-208

Author(s):

Andrey M. Belov ◽

Natalya A. Belova

Keyword(s):

Round Table ◽

Current Understanding ◽

Previous Experience ◽

Historical Background ◽

Historical Overview ◽

Information Centre ◽

Development History ◽

Scientific Discussion ◽

Public Figures

The article presents the results of a round table dedicated to the 77th anniversary of the restoration of Kostroma Region (in 1920s and 30s, the region’s territories belonged to nearby major cities); the meeting took place on August 27, 2021 at the information centre of the Administration of Kostroma Region. The participants of the round table considered the historical background and achievements of Kostroma Region, tried to make a historical overview of the development of the Kostroma Region and determine its prospects. The work summarises the most significant theses of the reports heard, we focus on the most important milestones in the region development history and the milestones’ current understanding, on the assimilation of previous experience by modern scientists and public figures in solving topical problems.

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Conventions, Constituent Assemblies, and Round Tables: Models, principles and elements of democratic constitution-making

Global Constitutionalism ◽

10.1017/s2045381711000050 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 173-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

ANDREW ARATO

Keyword(s):

Round Table ◽

Point Of View ◽

Constitutional Reform ◽

The European Union ◽

Revolutionary Change ◽

Veil Of Ignorance ◽

Constituent Assembly ◽

Multi Stage ◽

Democratic Constitution ◽

Constitution Making

AbstractThe article presents the Round Table form, elsewhere post-sovereign multi-stage constitution making as an independent democratic type superior to the alternatives. It locates the form along with Convention and Constituent Assembly both in a comprehensive typology based on models of regime transformation, as well as historically. After making a set of normative arguments comparing the three forms, focusing on the issue legitimation, I make a case for the synthetic nature of the Round Table in relation to the two important democratic predecessors. Finally, I reluctantly admit the path-determined nature of the Round Table that strictly speaking seems relevant only 1) in the transitions from dictatorships, if 2) new forces do not have the power to accomplish revolutionary change. Nevertheless, I argue that the principles of the Round Table (inclusion, consensus, publicity, legality and veil of ignorance) are relevant to other paths, from the point of view of their legitimation. I further claim with reference to Iraq, Turkey and the European Union that elements of the Round Table can be adopted even under conditions of revolutionary change, as well as constitutional reform.

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VI. The Round Table Movement and ‘Home Rule All Round’

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x00002041 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 332-353 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

J. E. Kendle

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Local Government ◽

Round Table ◽

Constitutional Reform ◽

Party Affiliation ◽

Home Rule ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Postal Services ◽

Provincial Councils

Before 1914 one of the methods often suggested as a solution of the Home Rule problem and the more general one of constitutional reform in the United Kingdom was ‘Home Rule all round’, known also as ‘Devolution’ or ‘Federalism’ dependent on the occasion or the party affiliation of the would-be reformer. The concept was by no means a new one; it had been broached as early as the 1830s and had received much attention in the eighties and nineties at the time of Gladstone's two Home Rule bills. At best it meant the erection of four provincial Parliaments with separate executives for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, responsible for essentially local matters, and an overall Parliament sitting in London, elected on a population basis, responsible for general United Kingdom affairs such as postal services, customs, trade, defence and foreign policy; at the very least the scheme meant the devolution onto local government bodies, possibly provincial councils, of many of the more parochial problems considered at Westminster. ‘Home Rule all round’ attracted considerable interest in 1910 at the time of the Constitutional Conference and again during the tempestuous months of 1913–14 when the United Kingdom hovered on the brink of civil war and any and all compromise solutions were of necessity being explored. The role played by the Round Table Movement in these proposals and subsequent manoeuvres has only partially been recognized.

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