Wiki-constitutionalism is a neologism coined by political analyst Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez in a 2010 article for The New Republic. The term describes the phenomenon in which national governments, particularly in Latin America, rewrite their constitutions completely every few years. Lansberg-Rodriguez argues that this habit usually leads to overly strengthened executives, because the other branches of government lack the institutional legitimacy, memory, relationships and mandate necessary to govern independently. The term is an amalgam of constitution and the ever-morphing articles of the open-source database Wikipedia, and the article was later recommended for reading by The New York Times.
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Origin Period (category)21st Century (2000-Present) 1 Sources
1. Wiki-constitutionalism (Wikipedia)
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Wiki-constitutionalism is a neologism coined by political analyst Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez in a 2010 article for The New Republic.
In Group: Constitutional Structure and Judicial Review Doctrines, Introduction, sentence 2
The term describes the phenomenon in which national governments, particularly in Latin America, rewrite their constitutions completely every few years, a habit which Lansberg-Rodriguez argues usually leads to overly strengthened executives as other branches of government will lack "the institutional legitimacy, memory, relationships, and mandate necessary to govern independently." The term itself is an amalgam of constitution and the "ever-morphing articles on the open-source database Wikipedia." Lansberg-Rodriguez' article was later recommended for reading by The New York Times.
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