Publications

Forthcoming

Grajzl, Peter, Gutmann, Jerg, and Voigt, Stefan (forth). The nation-state foundations of constitutional compliance. Constitutional Political Economy. [Link] (access link)

Gutmann, Jerg and Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna (forth). Introduction to the Special Issue on Constitutional Compliance. Constitutional Political Economy. [Link] (access link)

Gutmann, Jerg, Sarel, Roee, and Voigt, Stefan (forth). Measuring constitutional loyalty. Public Choice. [Link] (open access)

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw and Voigt, Stefan (forth). Assessing the impact of federalism on constitutional compliance. Constitutional Political Economy. [Link] (open access)

Lewkowicz, Jacek, Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna, and Fałkowski, Jan (forth). Political conflict, political polarization and constitutional compliance. Constitutional Political Economy. [Link] (open access)

2025

Gutmann, Jerg, Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw, and Voigt, Stefan (2025). How do citizens define and value the rule of law? A conjoint experiment in Germany and Poland. Journal of European Public Policy 32(4):899-925. [Link] (open access)

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw and Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna (2025). Debt beliefs and public support for restrictive fiscal rules. Economics Letters 247, 112104. [Link] (open access)

Lewczuk, Anna and Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna (2025). Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions. Journal of Comparative Economics 53(1):227-242. [Link]

2024

Choutagunta, Abishek, Gutmann, Jerg, and Voigt, Stefan (2024). Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance. Journal of Institutional Economics 20, e3. [Link] (open access)

Gutmann, Jerg, Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna, and Voigt, Stefan (2024). Leader characteristics and constitutional compliance. European Journal of Political Economy 84, 102423. [Link]

Gutmann, Jerg, Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna, and Voigt, Stefan (2024). The comparative constitutional compliance database. The Review of International Organizations 19(1):95-115. [Link] (open access)

Lewkowicz, Jacek, Fałkowski, Jan, Luo, Zimin, and Marut, Olga (2024). Watch out for words: The wording of constitutions and constitutional compliance. Journal of Institutional Economics 20:e35. [Link]

Lewkowicz, Jacek, Woźniak, Rafał, Lewczuk, Anna, and Marcol, Mateusz (2024). The longer the worse? The case of populism. anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance. Democratization 31(1):132-156. [Link]

2023

Gutmann, Jerg and Voigt, Stefan (2023). Militant constitutionalism: A promising concept to make constitutional backsliding less likely? Public Choice 195(3-4):377-404. [Link] (open access)

Hayo, Bernd and Voigt, Stefan (2023). Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure? European Journal of Political Economy 79, 102454. [Link]

Lewkowicz, Jacek and Lewczuk, Anna (2023). Civil society and compliance with constitutions. Acta Politica, 58(1):181-211. [Link] (access link)

2022

Bjørnskov, Christian, Freytag, Andreas, and Gutmann, Jerg (2022). Coups and the dynamics of media freedom. Economic Modelling 116, 106025. [Link]

Bjørnskov, Christian, Voigt, Stefan, and Khesali, Mahdi (2022). Unconstitutional states of emergency. Journal of Legal Studies 51(2):455-481. [Link]

Fałkowski, Jan and Lewkowicz, Jacek (2022). In practice or just on paper? Some insights on using alphabetical rule to assign judges to cases. European Journal of Law and Economics 54(3):405-430. [Link] (access link)

2021

Fałkowski, Jan and Lewkowicz, Jacek (2021). Are adjudication panels strategically selected? The case of constitutional court in Poland. International Review of Law and Economics 65, 105950. [Link]

Gutmann, Jerg, Khesali, Mahdi, and Voigt, Stefan (2021). Constitutional comprehensibility and the coordination of citizens: A test of the Weingast-hypothesis. University of Chicago Law Review Online. [Link] (open access)

Voigt, Stefan (2021). Mind the gap: Analyzing the divergence between constitutional text and constitutional reality. International Journal of Constitutional Law 19(5):1778-1809. [Link] (access link)

2020

Berggren, Niclas and Gutmann, Jerg (2020). Securing personal freedom through institutions: The role of electoral democracy and judicial independence. European Journal of Law and Economics 49(2):165-186. [Link] (open access)

Gutmann, Jerg, Lewczuk, Anna, Lewkowicz, Jacek, and Voigt, Stefan (2023). Culture and constitutional compliance. (reject & resubmit)

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw and Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna (2023). Do people value compliance with (constitutional) fiscal rules? Evidence from a conjoint experiment.

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw and Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna (2023). How does the public make sense of fiscal rules?