Managing constitutional change

Constitutional crises seem to be the order of the day with reports on the rise and fall of political systems around the world almost dominating world news on a daily basis. How does a country negotiate and manage constitutional change in such a way that the very process of drafting a new constitution becomes the first building block of such a change? This issue is the focus of this publication which outlines and compares the experiences of a wide range of countries which at some time or another had to manage a constitutional change.