Comparative Constitutions Project

New from the CCP 🚨 Giovanni Sartori told political scientists to take their vocabulary seriously. Now there's a tool for that. sartori.network lets you explore how 10 research teams across law and political science define and connect 2,010 concepts.

Our postdoctoral researcher, Matthew Martin, has a new article out in Comparative Politics based on his interviews with constitution-makers in Chile and Cuba. Check it out below!

Recently we've been updating our constitutional chronology through 2025, which means an updated timeline! Are we missing something? Let us know!

🎉 I have accepted an offer to publish my paper "Is an Unamendable Constitution Undemocratic?" with the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law @PennJCL! 📝 In the paper, I make the case that unamendability is not a technology worth encoding in any constitution. I draw from the results of a first-of-its-kind global survey of constitutional experts to show that unamendability takes a toll on both legality and legitimacy. 📜 My principal purpose in the paper is to steer constitution-makers away from designing constitutions that induce incumbents to follow the path of illegality when they feel handcuffed to an unamendable constitution. I offer detailed recommendations for designing constitutions to be always amendable, while simultaneously protecting the core of the constitution and its highest values. 📰 The full-text of the paper is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. 🙏🏽 Thank you to the editors of the @PennJCL for accepting my paper! CC: @UTexasLaw @UTGovernment @UTCivics @UTAustin @ccpconstitute

📚Nuevo artículo: “Consulta sin consenso: Lecciones de la Convención Constitucional de Chile (2021–2022)” de Matthew Martin (@ccpconstitute). Se identifican 3 tensiones clave en la participación constitucional: sequenciación, agregación y autoridad. 🔗 doi.org/10.5354/0719-5…

Big news from the Constitute Project! 29 English-language constitutional texts just got updated with recent amendments. Now live! 🇦🇲🇧🇩🇧🇿🇧🇼🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇷🇯🇲🇰🇿🇰🇮🇽🇰🇱🇻🇱🇮🇱🇹🇲🇾🇲🇩🇳🇷🇳🇬🇲🇰🇵🇪🇼🇸🇸🇨🇸🇱🇸🇮🇸🇩🇹🇴🇹🇳🇻🇺🇿🇼 Don't see your country's latest amendments yet? We're on it. constituteproject.org

Join us Feb 26-27 for @UTAustin's renowned public law conference, focused this year on how #courts navigate #democracy and headlined by Lee Epstein. Now in its 11th year, the event is led by #PublicLaw PhD students in the @UTGovernment. Read more at tinyurl.com/3cytdmax.

@thedailytexan @UTAustin Thanks so much for the shout out! The Charlie Day-inspired Bevo comic is hilarious, too.

.@UTAustin researchers in the @ccpconstitute project developed an interactive platform called Sartori.network, which maps and compares social science and law concepts from scholars around the world. The CICL project hopes that the platform will improve constitutional design by helping define, connect and expand shared ideas globally. thedailytexan.com/2026/02/15/uni…

Abajo está la training session que hicimos de las nuevas herramientas de NLP que publicamos hace unos días en el CCP 👇

In her new article, Carole Petersen provides a definitive account of challenges to #academicfreedom and university autonomy in the #UnitedStates and #HongKong. Available in #English and #Mandarin at tinyurl.com/2hdap9ah. Sign up for future issues at tinyurl.com/4m3k37z5.

CCP's Most Wanted 🔍 We've gathered thousands of texts, but some still elude us. Can you help track them down? We're searching for: 🇬🇪 Georgia 1921 🇦🇲 Armenia 1978 🇮🇩 Indonesia 1949 🇸🇾 Syria 1920 🇪🇹 Ethiopia 1974 🇭🇹 Haiti 1902 ...and many more! comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/ccps-most-want…

🗞️ 5 constitutional developments you may have missed this week 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Draft new constitution unveiled. 🇹🇭 Thailand – People vote to replace military-backed constitution during nationwide referendum. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – Cabinet approves extension of presidential terms. 🇲🇽 Mexico – Senate approves plans to introduce a 40-hour workweek. 🇲🇪 Montenegro – President to propose constitutional guarantee of non-working Sundays and holidays. 👉 Stay updated on constitutional news from around the world: constitutionnet.org/news

In case you missed today's training on the CCP's new "Sartori Suite" of concept analysis tools, you can watch a recording here! youtube.com/watch?v=bYBznv…

Starting now!

Tomorrow!!!

El jueves tendremos una sesión para mostrar las nuevas herramientas que hemos publicado en el CCP en las últimas semanas. Más info abajo 👇

Join us Thursday to learn about our new tools! 🔧 Sartori.network — map conceptual landscapes 🔧 Constitution Comparison — track text changes & borrowing 🔧 Domain Comparison — assess ontology overlap 🔧 Segments-as-Topics — test topic formulations liberalarts.utexas.edu/lawanddemocrac…

Somewhere Giovanni Sartori is smiling!

En el CCP publicamos esta nueva herramienta hoy. Pasen a mirarla 👇

Learn how to use all our concept analysis tools in your work at our training on February 12. Registration link below. We hope to see you there! liberalarts.utexas.edu/lawanddemocrac…

New from the CCP 🚨 Giovanni Sartori told political scientists to take their vocabulary seriously. Now there's a tool for that. sartori.network lets you explore how 10 research teams across law and political science define and connect 2,010 concepts.