Vivienne Hart

Job Title

Research Professor

Organization

University of Sussex

Country

UK

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

Publications:

(a) Books:

*Distrust and Democracy: Political Distrust in Britain and America (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1978), xvii, 251 pp

*Writing a National Identity: Political, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives on the Written Constitution ed. and intro. with Shannon C. Stimson (UC, Berkeley) Fulbright Papers no. 11 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993), xii, 245 pp

*Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1994), xv, 255 pp. Choice, Outstanding Academic
Book, 1995

*Women Making Constitutions: New Politics and Comparative Perspectives ed. and intro. with Alexandra Dobrowolsky (St Mary’s University, Halifax NS), (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2003) xi, 277 pp.

(b) Selected Articles, Chapters, Reports, 2000+:

*‘Constitutions’ in Routledge Women's Studies Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2000)

*‘Constitution-making and the Transformation of Conflict,’ Peace and Change 26 (April 2001), pp. 153-176

*‘So Many Worlds, So Much to Do: Historical Specificity and Gender Politics,’ Journal of Women’s History 13 (Winter 2002), pp. 200-209

*‘Gender,’ in Robert Singh ed., Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp.391-409

*Democratic Constitution Making, Special Report 107, July 2003 (Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 2003)

*‘Women, New Politics and Constitutional Change,’ with Alexandra Dobrowolsky, in Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Vivien Hart eds., Women Making Constitutions: New Politics and *Comparative Perspectives (Houndmills: Palgrave, November 2003), pp. 1-19

*‘Redesigning the Polity: Europe, Women and Constitutional Politics in the UK,’ in Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Vivien Hart eds., Women Making Constitutions (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2003), pp. 118-131

*Gender Equity in Constitution Making, with Helen Irving (University of Sydney), Report for United Nations Development Programme, January 2005, 46 pp.

*‘Adkins v. Children’s Hospital of Washington D.C.,” in Melvin Urofsky, ed., The Public Response to Controversial Supreme Court Decisions (Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 2006), pp. 121-131

*‘Constitution Making and the Right to Take Part in a Public Affair,’ in Laurel E. Miller and Louis Aucoin eds., Framing the State in Times of Transition: A Comparative Study of the Constitution Making Process (Washington D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, forthcoming) [14000 words]

Current Research:

*With Prof. Helen Irving (Sydney), article on gender equity and constitution making.

*South African Constitutional Court decisions and other developments on “duty to consult” in policymaking.

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