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Published in: Home: OpinionSarwar confirms that Labour has no plan to reform the UKScottish Labour leader reveals that the party’s ideas to solve the UK’s constitutional crisis are meaningless
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy codifying our constitution and a Citizens’ Convention won’t resolve our political crisisReformers need to start thinking differently about constitutional change if they want to build a meaningful...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMaking a New Constitution: The Citizens’ Convention on UK Democracy: Part 2The Citizens’ Convention offers a welcome space for public sovereignty over our future constitution – but as...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKD-Day and the Constitution! Why Britain needs a written constitution by Lord ScarmanLord Scarman helped plan the D-Day landings – and in later years was a bold supporter of constitutional reform. We...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJohn Smith and the path Britain did not takeWhen we lost John Smith, we lost a leader who would have taken Labour and Britain down the path of radical and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEurope’s misguided applause for Morocco’s reform processStability under the cover of autocracy is not only unjust and brutal but also unsustainable.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWomen’s rights in the new Tunisian constitutionThe constitution was voted in during a period when belief in the status quo changing had lost all traction. Due to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia’s new constitution: progress and challenges to comeMost Tunisians agree that their new constitution is an advance, despite the imperfections. The people’s new...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe government is refusing to honour its own commitments on giving powers to parliament
The British government's failure to keep its word on the issue demonstrates once again that it is determined to keep...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIslam and politicsThere remains a deeper problem in making a religious text foundational and that can be summed up in one word: commitment.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReconnecting the political classHow can the political class reconnect with voters before it becomes irrelevant? How can our institutions reform...
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Published in: HomeThe road to federal consociationalism
Many Israeli Jewish intellectuals, activists and politicians over the years have spoken out clearly for a one-state...
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Published in: HomeIt is worth a delay or two to put Tunisia on the right democratic path
The articles at stake now in the constitutional debates are too significant to wrap up in a matter of weeks
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Published in: HomeUnderrated legislations: Arab parliaments could play a crucial transformational roleArab parliaments have traditionally played a largely ceremonial and self-serving role in politics. But now, they...
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Published in: HomePresidents, Prime Ministers and the Arab SpringAfter a year of quiet turmoil under Ennahda's rule, post-revolution Tunisia faces many challenges. Sujit Choudhry...
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Published in: HomeDemocratic reform in Turkey: constitutional ‘moment’ or constitutional process?
Constitutions are highly entrenched laws that express the common identity of the nation. They require substantial...
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Published in: HomeInstitutionalising the Arab Gulf Governments
For the Arab States of the Gulf there are two kinds of reforms, those that are acceptable and those that are off...
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Published in: HomeThe new Egyptian constitution: an initial assessment of its merits and flaws
Egypt cannot be described as a religious state, given that political power remains firmly in the hands of civilians,...
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Published in: HomeThe failings of the process of adopting the Egyptian constitution
If the constitution is approved by a simple majority of voters, the opposition would have no reason to abandon...
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Published in: HomeConstitutional highway to theocracy
Egypt's constitutional draft should be rejected, the draft contains many dangers regarding private property, the...
