The architecture of democracy : constitutional design, conflict management, and democracy / ed. by Andrew Reynolds.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-487) and index.

Introduction : institutional design, conflict management, and democracy / Katharine Belmont, Scott Mainwaring, and Andrew Reynolds -- Constitutional design : proposals versus processes / Donald L. Horowitz -- The wave of power-sharing democracy / Arend Lijphart -- Institutions and coalition-building in post-communist transitions / Olga Shvetsova -- Presidents, parliaments, and democracy : insights from the post-communist world / Timothy Frye -- Presidentialism and democratic performance / José Antonio Cheibub -- Constitutional asymmetries : communal representation, federalism, and cultural autonomy / Yash Pal Ghai -- Federalism and state-building : post-communist and post-colonial perspectives / Steven L. Solnick -- Ballots not bullets : testing consociational theories of ethnic conflict, electoral systems, and democratization / Pippa Norris -- Designing electoral rules and waiting for an electoral system to evolve / Rein Taagepera -- Constitutional engineering in post-coup Fiji / Brij V. Lal -- The Belfast Agreement and the British-Irish Agreement : consociation, confederal institutions, a federacy, and a peace process / Brendan O'Leary -- The Eritrean experience in constitution making : the dialectic of process and substance / Bereket Habte Selassie -- Indonesia's democratic transition : playing by the rules / R. William Liddle -- Institutional design, ethnic conflict management, and democracy in Nigeria / Rotimi T. Suberu and Larry Diamond -- Ethnic diversities, constitutional designs, and public policies in India / David Stuligross and Ashutosh Varshney.