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Constitutional Choices Turned into Simple In-Period Choices: A Power Relations Reading of the Chadian and Cameroonian Constitutions

In: Behind a Veil of Ignorance?

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  • Thomas Cedric Eboutou

    (Université de Montréal)

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In this study we apply a methodology proposed by Imbeau and Jacob to test the veil of ignorance hypothesis in the Chadian and Cameroonian cases. In a first step, we present the context that led to the making of the Chadian and Cameroonian constitutions and in a second step, we analyze, in the light of that context, the uncertainty measures derived from a content analysis of those constitutions. Overall, our evidences are mixed: our uncertainty measures are sometimes found to be rather counterintuitive. We suggest that in cases where there are presumably legal writing styles and traditions, content analysis-based measures of uncertainty can be noisy.

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  • Thomas Cedric Eboutou, 2015. "Constitutional Choices Turned into Simple In-Period Choices: A Power Relations Reading of the Chadian and Cameroonian Constitutions," Studies in Public Choice, in: Louis M. Imbeau & Steve Jacob (ed.), Behind a Veil of Ignorance?, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 223-237, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stpchp:978-3-319-14953-0_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14953-0_13
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