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The Economics of Constitutional Compliance

From February 2018 to January 2023, a joint research project of the Universities of Hamburg and Warsaw investigated the causes and consequences of the differing binding force of national constitutions.

Since 2024, our team has been working on a follow-up project on constitution-making, also funded by DFG and NCN.

Principal investigators

Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
University of Warsaw

Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg

Funding

German Research Foundation (DFG), project no. 381589259, and National Science Centre Poland (NCN), project no. UMO-2016/23/G/HS4/04371, within the Beethoven 2 funding initiative. Total funding: €450,000.

Publications

Journal articles and working papers of the project.

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Data

The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database, covering 175 countries since 1900.

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Team

The project team and associated researchers.

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