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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT170100358
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Constitutional resilience in South Asian democracies. This project aims to find out whether constitutional design could, and should, be used to make constitutional democracies more resilient. Democratic constitutionalism is facing serious challenges, not only in new fragile democracies, but also older established ones. The project will investigate the role that the constitutional accommodation of salient ethnocultural and ideological groups, the autonomy of non-partisan constitutional watchdog institutions, and the adaptability of the constitution to changing circumstances could play in securing its resilience against serious threats. Relying on conceptual and empirical methods, using case studies from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, to answer these questions, the project will produce a better understanding of constitutional resilience, and the features that promote it to allow constitution makers and reformers to better protect democracy, human rights and the rule of law. This will provide significant national benefit for Australia as it deepens its engagement with South Asia, and the world more generally.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 09-2017
End Date: 08-2021
Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships
Funding Amount: $988,852.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Comparative Law | Constitutional Law | Law | Legal Institutions (incl. Courts and Justice Systems)
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare | Understanding Asia's Past | Political Systems |
