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Does Constitution-Making Matter?

Since 2024, a joint research project of the Universities of Hamburg and Warsaw has investigated the effects of constitution-making and of constitution-making procedures.

Principal investigators

Prof. Dr. Jerg Gutmann
University of Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
University of Warsaw

Funding

German Research Foundation (DFG), project no. 525707184, and National Science Centre Poland (NCN), project no. 2022/47/I/HS4/03170. Total funding: €480,000.

Recent publications

  • Fourth branch agencies: A silver bullet for making government accountable?
    Gutmann, J., & Voigt, S. (forthcoming). International Journal of Constitutional Law.
  • Populism and constitutionalism
    Gutmann, J., & Metelska-Szaniawska, K. (forthcoming). In Handbook on Economic Populism. Edward Elgar.
  • Can new constitutions tighten the reins? The effect of constitutional change on constitutional compliance
    Gutmann, J., Metelska-Szaniawska, K., & Voigt, S. (2026). Public Choice, 207(1–2), 221–238. DOI
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Data

Datasets and replication materials produced by the project, archived with persistent identifiers.

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Team

The project team and associated researchers.

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Events

Next: post-conference project workshop on constitution-making, following the Baltic Public Choice Workshop in Gdańsk, January 2027.

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