Authoritarian constitutions

Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser: An old Soviet joke has it that a man goes into a restaurant and surveys the menu. "I'll have the chicken," he says, only to be told by the waiter that the restaurant is out of chicken. He asks for the beef, only to be told the same thing. Working his way through the menu, he is repeatedly told that the restaurant is out of the selected dish, … [Read more...] about CONSTITUTIONS IN AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES