{"pk":38108,"title":"Prosociality, Federalism, and Cultural Evolution","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Constitutions are more than their text; a constitution is also a set of conventions, or expectations that constituents have about one another's behavior.  That is, constitutions have a \nculture.\n The coherence between the constitutional law and constitutional culture determine a constitution's success.  Constitutional culture and constitutional law co-evolve; by understanding the influence of multiple institutions, one may make predictions about the likelihood of the emergence of a prosocial constitutional culture.  There are reasons to believe that federalism might encourage the development of a prosocial constitutional culture, but the effect is far from certain.This essay concludes with questions to consider in while assessing Afghanistan's prospects for constitutional success.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"constitutional design, complex adaptive systems, federalism"},{"word":"Political science, law"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14g842rt","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jenna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bednar","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-04-05T16:11:51Z","date_accepted":"2012-04-05T16:11:51Z","date_published":"2012-06-30T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38108/galley/28677/download/"}]}