Political Parties, Interest Groups and Constitutional Issues

Abstract

One element in shaping the constitutional outcome is given by the type of participants who take part in the constitutional deliberations. Because each set of participants has a different sense of what is properly constitutional and what is to be achieved through the constitutional renewal, the specific constitutional agenda also depends greatly on the type of actors who are able to participate. Participants pursuing different and conflicting goals struggle to define the range of issues to be put on to the table of discussion and to structure the terms of the debate.