{"id":19,"date":"2010-12-02T00:39:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constitutionalassembly.politicaldata.org\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2011-05-18T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:58:23","slug":"required-readings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.constitutionalassembly.politicaldata.org\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Required readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presumably the goal of the Constitutional <del>Assembly<\/del> Council is to make educated decisions about what the new constitution should look like. \u00a0The Constitutional Council&#8217;s website has an &#8216;extensive database&#8217; (v\u00ed\u00f0femt gagnasafn), which is extremely thin on anything having anything to do with how constitutions and political institutions work. \u00a0In addition it barely includes any non-Icelandic material, thus, largely ignoring the fact that there is a lot of literature on political institutions out there. \u00a0So here is a short list of <a title=\"Required Readings\" href=\"http:\/\/constitutionalassembly.politicaldata.org\/Leslisti.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">required readings [.pdf]<\/a>. \u00a0It is not by any means complete &#8211; it is more a random list of things that I thought someone writing a constitution should probably read and is, therefore, far from being exhaustive. \u00a0Below are some additional readings (I was too lazy to enter the bibliographic information).<\/p>\n<p>If you have suggestions of readings that should be added to this list, drop me a line: <a href=\"mailto:indridi.indridason@ucr.edu\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">indridi.indridason@ucr.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0521397340\/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=constitassemb-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399353&amp;creativeASIN=0521397340\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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