TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jennings,Colin
AU  - Jennings,Colin
TI  - Political Leadership, Conflict, and the Prospects for Constitutional Peace
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Agreement
KW  - Agreements
KW  - Compromise
KW  - Conflict
KW  - Conflict and Development
KW  - Conflict Resolution
KW  - Constitutional Reform
KW  - Contract
KW  - Convention
KW  - Conventions
KW  - Economy
KW  - Education
KW  - Education and Society
KW  - Fighting
KW  - Frontier
KW  - Meeting
KW  - Negotiation
KW  - Organized Crime
KW  - Peace
KW  - Peace and Peacekeeping
KW  - Post Conflict Reconstruction
KW  - Post Conflict Reintegration
KW  - Trust
KW  - University
KW  - Violent Conflict
KW  - War
N2  - The emphasis on constitutional political economy has been that new rules and institutions can be devised that improve the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower levels of welfare, this paper attempts to analyze why we do not see more constitutional conventions aimed at eliminating conflict. The key idea is that expressively motivated group members may create incentives for instrumentally motivated group leaders such that it leads them to choose conflict rather than compromise. Nonetheless, it is not argued that such a peace is impossible to obtain. This leads to a further question, that if such a constitutional agreement could be found, would the expressive perspective alter the conventional instrumental perspective on the sort of constitutional reform that should be undertaken?
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-4196
ER  -