LATAM's CCE Project

LATAM's Comparative Constitutional Engineering Project aims to become the first comparative constitutional study of the 19 current constitutions in Latin America, sharing its results through an open-access digital dashboard. Following Giovanni Sartori's still-valid view of the Constitution as “plans to design government’s structures”, this project focuses on the main factors that determine and organise power within the state. Across key variables, it analyses, from a comparative perspective, those constitutional devices that help determine how far or close Latin American constitutions are to advanced liberal democracy. As a comparative constitutional research, this project's secondary objective is to provide critical data on significant trends and particularities to constitution drafters and policymakers in Latin America, who ultimately are the most responsible agents for building resilient democratic constitutions.

Director: Alexander Rojas R. (jalexanderrojasr@icloud.com)

Research assistants: Observatorio Político de las Américas

Status: Ongoing