Volume 94, Number 3 – May 2014
CONTENTS
SYMPOSIUM
AMERICA’S POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION: CONSTITUTIONAL CONNECTIONS, CAUSES, AND CURES
Editors’ Foreword
Page 575
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Regulatory Lookback
Cass R. Sunstein
Page 579
PANEL I: IS DYSFUNCTION AN ILLUSION?
On Political and Constitutional Dysfunction: Remembering James Stockdale
Sotirios A. Barber
Page 603
Belling the Partisan Cats: Preliminary Thoughts on Identifying and Mending a Dysfunctional Constitutional Order
Mark A. Graber
Page 611
Governing Beyond Imagination: The “World Historical” Sources of Democratic Dysfunction
Nancy L. Rosenblum
Page 649
PANEL II: IS THE CONSTITUTION RESPONSIBLE FOR FOR ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION?
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath
Page 669
Election Law’s Lochnerian Turn
Ellen D. Katz
Page 697
PANEL III: HAS THE CONSTITUTION EXACERBATED THE CRISIS OF GOVERNANCE?
The New Constitution of the United States: Do We Need One and How Would We Get One?
Jack Beermann
Page 711
The Electoral College and Presidential Particularism
Douglas Kriner & Andrew Reeves
Page 741
The Conventional Misdiagnosis: Why “Gridlock” Is Not Our Central Problem and Constitutional Revision Is Not the Solution
R. Shep Melnick
Page 767
Twentieth-Century Remedies
Stephen Skowronek
Page 795
Constitutional Exaptation, Political Dysfunction, and the Recess Appointments Clause
Jay Wexler
Page 807
PANEL IV: HAS THE CONSTITUTION FOSTERED A PATHOLOGICAL RIGHTS CULTURE? THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
Gun Rights Talk
Joseph Blocher
Page 813
Second Amendment: Not Constitutional Dysfunction but Necessary Safeguard
Robert J. Cottrol
Page 835
Ordered Gun Liberty: Rights with Responsibilities and Regulation
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain
Page 849
A Tale of Two Rights
Robin West
Page 893
PANEL V: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM OTHER NATIONS’ EXPERIENCES?
Democratic Dysfunction and Constitutional Design
Yasmin Dawood
Page 913
Dysfunctional? Dissonant? Démodé? America’s Constitutional Woes in Comparative Perspective
Ran Hirschl
Page 939
Why Are There No Coalition Governments in the United States?: A Speculative Essay
Mark Tushnet
Page 961
Dysfunctional Government at Home and Abroad
Graham K. Wilson
Page 971
American Exceptionalism and Government Shutdowns: A Comparative Constitutional Reflection on the 2013 Lapse in Appropriations
Katharine G. Young
Page 991
PANEL VI: WHAT ARE WE TO DO ABOUT DYSFUNCTION?
Constitutional Disuse or Desuetude: The Case of Article V
Richard Albert
Page 1029
The Talking Cure: How Constitutional Argument Drives Constitutional Development
Ken I. Kersch
Page 1083
One (?) Nation Overextended
Gary Lawson
Page 1109
What Are We to Do About Dysfunction? Reflections on Structural Constitutional Change and the Irrelevance of Clever Lawyering
Sanford Levinson
Page 1127
Why Not Just Say No? An Essay on the Obduracy of Constitution Fixation
Frank I. Michelman
Page 1141
CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Last Days of Disco: Why the American Political System is Dysfunctional
Jack M. Balkin
Page 1159