Annual Review of Constitution Building: 2024

International IDEA's Annual Review of Constitution-Building 2024 provides a comprehensive look at global constitutional shifts, the forces driving them, and their impact on both domestic and international affairs. The Review covers a wide range of topics related to the process and substance of constitutions, from broad themes such as democratic backsliding to more specific issues like the constitutional place of the prosecution service.

When International IDEA published the first Annual Review of Constitution-Building in 2013, democratic reform was high on the global agenda. A decade later, the picture has changed dramatically. As many of this year’s chapters highlight, constitutional debates and reforms in numerous countries reflect troubling trends for democracy and the rule of law. Yet the Review also reminds us that, even in a challenging global landscape, there are silver linings—efforts that offer hope and deserve recognition and support.

Contents

Introduction 
Sumit Bisarya

1. Constitutional resilience: Fixing the roof while the sun is shining
Alexandra Oancea and Sumit Bisarya

2. Gender and constitutionalism: Barbados and Ghana
Satang Nabaneh

3. Adversarial politics and constitutional change: Fiji, Guyana and Jamaica
W. Elliot Bulmer

4. The constitutional place of the prosecution service, democratic backsliding and resilience
Adem Kassie Abebe

5. Constituting family, gender and the nation: European Union ‘values’ and integration in 2024
Sharon Pia Hickey

6. Constitution making in exile
Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher

7. Extensions to transitional governments: The uses and limits of their regulation
William Underwood

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Also in this series: Annual Review of Constitution-Building: 2023