**Version 4.0 of Characteristics Data Now Available!**
Phase I: Chronology
Chronology of Constitutional Events, Version 1.3
(updated through 2019)
Phase II: Texts
Although we have gathered the texts for nearly every constitutional event since 1789, only a small percentage of these are not under copyright restrictions. However, nearly all of the world’s currently actively constitutions are available on our site Constitute.
Phase III: Characteristics
NEW! Characteristics of National Constitutions, Version 4.0
Replication Information
This section contains instructions and data to replicate some of the research performed using data from the Comparative Constitutions Project. If the CCP replication data you are looking for is not available on this page, please contact us to request the data. For other replication materials not available on this website (i.e. instructions, software code, or non-CCP data), you will have to contact the author(s) directly.
- The Law of the Sea and Democracy (2022) | Read It
Replication Data - Democracies and International Law (2021) | Read It
Replication Data - The Bound Executive (2021) | Read It
Replication Data - How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018) | Read It
Replication Data - Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty (2015) | Read It
Replication Data - Constitutional Islamization and Human Rights: The Surprising Origin and Spread of Islamic Supremacy in Constitutions (2014) | Read It
Replication Data - Constitutions and Election Management (2014) | Read It
Replication Data - Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter?: A Reevaluation of Explanations for Judicial Independence (2014) | Read It
Replication Data - Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism (2013) | Read It
Replication Data - The Content of Authoritarian Constitutions (2013) | Read It
Replication Data - When to Overthrow your Government: The Right to Resist in the World’s Constitutions (2013) | Read It
Replication Data - Why Do Countries Adopt Constitutional Review? (2013) | Read It
Replication Data - Comments on Law and Versteeg’s The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution (2012) | Read It
Replication Data - On the Interpretability of Law: Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions (2012) | Read It
Replication Data - Deciding Not to Decide: Deferral in Constitutional Design (2011) | Read It
Replication Data - On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits (2011) | Read It
Replication Data - The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009) | Read It
Replication Data - Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul…: Constitution Making in Occupied States (2008) | Read It
Partial List of Military Occupations