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, Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw, and Voigt, Stefan (forth). How do citizens define and value the rule of law? A conjoint experiment in Germany and Poland. Journal of European Public Policy. [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)

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). The comparative constitutional compliance database. The Review of International Organizations 19(1):95-115. [Link] (open access)

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)

Gutmann, Jerg, Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna, and Voigt, Stefan (2023). Leader characteristics and constitutional compliance. European Journal of Political Economy, 102423. [Link]

Hayo, Bernd and Voigt, Stefan (2023). Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure? European Journal of Political Economy, 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 and Rode, Martin (2023). Are populists constitutionalists? An empirical assessment of populist constitutional compliance.

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

Gutmann, Jerg, Sarel, Roee, and Voigt, Stefan (2022). Measuring constitutional loyalty: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic. ILE Working Paper 55. [Link] (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?

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw and Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna (2023). Information provision and public support for restrictive fiscal rules.

Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw and Voigt, Stefan (2024). Assessing the impact of federalism on constitutional compliance. ILE Working Paper 79. [Link]

Lewczuk, Anna and Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna (2023). Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions.