CONSTITUTIONALIZING “AUTHORITARIAN LIBERALISM”:THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CHARTER CHANGE NOW AGENDA

by Bonn Juego

A deeper logic underlies the Charter Change Now agenda. It is the logic of providing the fundamental institutional framework, with constitutional effect, that would guarantee the global and domestic rights of capital. At the heart of the project is to constitutionalise ‘authoritarian liberalism’ as the de facto state form that promotes a (neo) liberal economy in an authoritarian political framework.