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**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.

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
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• Democracies and International Law (2021) | Read It
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• The Bound Executive (2021) | Read It
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• How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018) | Read It
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• Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty (2015) | Read It
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• Constitutional Islamization and Human Rights: The Surprising Origin and Spread of Islamic Supremacy in Constitutions (2014) | Read It
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• Constitutions and Election Management (2014) | Read It
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• Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter?: A Reevaluation of Explanations for Judicial Independence (2014) | Read It
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• Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism (2013) | Read It
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• The Content of Authoritarian Constitutions (2013) | Read It
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• When to Overthrow your Government: The Right to Resist in the World’s Constitutions (2013) | Read It
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• Why Do Countries Adopt Constitutional Review? (2013) | Read It
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• Comments on Law and Versteeg’s The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution (2012) | Read It
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• On the Interpretability of Law: Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions (2012) | Read It
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• Deciding Not to Decide: Deferral in Constitutional Design (2011) | Read It
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• On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits (2011) | Read It
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• The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009) | Read It
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• Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul…: Constitution Making in Occupied States (2008) | Read It
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