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William Elliot Bulmer

Job Title

APO - Constitution Building Processes

Organization

International IDEA

Country

United Kingdom

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

Monographs:

(2014) A Constitution for the Common Good: Strengthening Scottish Democracy After 2014 (Luath Press, Edinburgh).

(2011) A Model Constitution for Scotland: Making Democracy Work in an Independent State (Luath Press: Edinburgh).

Peer Reviewed Academic Articles:
(2014) 'Constitution Building in Scotland: Why, what and how?', Scottish Parliamentary Review, Vol. 2, No. 1.

(2014) 'Constrained Majoritarianism: Westminster Constitutionalism in Malta', Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol. 52, No. 2.

(2011) 'An Analysis of the Scottish National Party's Draft Constitution for Scotland', Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 64. No. 4.

(2011) 'Minority Veto Referendums: An Alternative to Bicameralism', Politics, Vol. 31. No. 3. pp. 107–120.

Working Papers for Constitutional Commission:

(2012) Secure Autonomy – A sovereign Scotland within a re-negotiated Union, (Submission to the Scottish Government).

(2011) Advisory Report on the Scottish Democratic Alliance’s Proposed Constitution for Scotland, (Report on behalf of Scottish Democratic Alliance).

(2011) The Fixed Term Parliaments Bill: A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis, (Report on behalf of the Constitutional Commission).

Conference Papers:

(2013 – Forthcoming) ‘Scotland’s New Constitution: Westminster or Nordic models?’ (‘Scotland 2014: Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence’, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.)

(2013) ‘Civic Republican Approaches to Constitutional Design’, (‘Towards a Written Constitution’ Conference; Sciences-Po, Paris.)

(2009) ‘The Causes And Consequences of the Scottish National Party’s Constitutional Policy since 1977’, (‘Devolution: Ten Years On’ Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University).

(2007) ‘Supreme Courts and Sovereign Peoples: A Neo-Roman Republican Perspective on Judicial Review’, (PSA Graduate Conference, University of Glasgow).

Publications in Broadsheets and Practitioner Journals:

(2013) 'Response to Vernon Bogdanor', The Guardian.

(2012) ‘Do Scots Need the Lords’, Sunday Herald.

(2012) ‘Rules of Engagement’, Holyrood Magazine.

(2011) ‘Our future is waiting to be written: Why Scotland needs a written Constitution’, Sunday Herald.

(2011) ‘Not just King ‘Eck’s realm’, The Scotsman.

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