Bibliography

Works in Progress

  • Federalism, Regional Autonomy, and Ethnic Conflict: Politics and Law ()

Books

  • Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia (NIAS Press, ) (editor with Helen Ting M.H.)
  • Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment (Yale University Press, )
  • Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, )
  • Ethnic Groups in Conflict: Theories, Patterns, and Policies () (1985; reissued with a new preface, 2000)(Ukranian translation, 2004)
  • Facing Ethnic Conflicts: Towards a New Realism (Rowman & Littlefield, ) (editor with Andreas Wimmer)
  • The Deadly Ethnic Riot ()
  • Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience () (editor with Gerald Noiriel)
  • The Helping Professions and the Hurting Conflicts () (Michigan State University Center for Advanced Study of International Development, Distinguished Speaker Series, Monograph No. 10, 1992)
  • A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society ()
  • Community Conflict: Policy and Possibilities (Center for Conflict Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, ) (Center for Conflict Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Occasional Paper No. 1, 1990) (Romanian translation)
  • Coup Theories and Officers' Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective ()
  • The Courts and Social Policy ()
  • The Jurocracy: Government Lawyers, Agency Programs, and Judicial Decisions ()

Articles & Essays

  • Afterward, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 271-277 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., ) (with Helen Ting M.H.)
  • Electoral System Reform, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 175-204 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., )
  • Introduction, in Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia 1-13 (Helen Ting M.H. & Donald L. Horowitz eds., ) (with Helen Ting M.H.)
  • Walker Connor, 45 Nationalities papers  730-733 ()
  • Ethnic Power Sharing: Three Big Problems, 25 Journal of Democracy 5-20 ()
  • Comment on "Excessive Ambitions (II)" (by Jon Elster), 8 Capitalism & Society 2-8 ()
  • Writing the New Rules of the Game, 35 Wilson Quarterly 52-54 (Summer )
  • Getting to No, 6 The American Interest 50-58 ()
  • 'The Federalist' Abroad in the World, in The Federalist 502-532 (Ian Shapiro ed., )  (essay accompanying new edition of The Federalist)
  • A Federal Constituency for Belgium: Right Idea, Inadequate Method, in Electoral Engineering for a Stalled Federation (Kris Deschouwer & Philippe Van Parijs eds., )
  • Conciliatory Institutions and Constitutional Process in Post-Conflict States, 49 William and Mary Law Review 1213-1248 ()
  • Where Have All the Parties Gone? Fraenkel and Grofman on the Alternative Vote - Yet Again, 133 Public Choice 13-23 ()
  • The Many Uses of Federalism, 55 Drake Law Review 953-966 ()
  • Constitutional Courts: A Primer for Decision Makers, 17 Journal of Democracy 125-137 ()
  • Constitution-Making: A Process Filled With Constraint, 12 Review of Constitutional Studies 1-17 ()
  • Electoral Systems and Their Goals: A Primer for Decision-Makers, 2006 Journal of Democracy 115-27 () (October 2003)(Farsi translation, 2006)
  • Strategy Takes a Holiday: Fraenkel and Grofman on the Alternative Vote, 39 Comparative Political Studies 652-662 ()
  • Three Ways to Make a Constitution, in Constitutional Reform: Background, Process and Impact 15-28 (Chung-Ii Wu & Yu-Shan Wu eds, )  (Chinese translation)
  • Constitutional Courts: Opportunities and Pitfalls, in Towards a New Constitution in Afghanistan (Barnett Rubin ed., )  (in English, Pushto, and Persian)(Uzbek translation 2004)
  • Some Realism About Constitutional Engineering, 2004  245-257 () (with Andreas Wimmer)
  • The Alternative Vote and Interethnic Moderation: A Reply to Fraenkel and Grofman, 121 Public Choice 507-521 ()
  • The Cracked Foundations of the Right to Secede, 14 Journal of Democracy 5-17 ()
  • A Right to Secede?, in Secession and Self-Determination 50-76 (Stephen Macedo & Allen Buchanan eds., )  (Nomos v.45)
  • Foreword: Compared to What?, 13 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 1-6 (Summer )
  • The Research University: A State of Mind, 61 Akademika 129-134 ()
  • Explaining the Northern Ireland Agreement: The Sources of an Unlikely Constitutional Consensus, 32 British Journal of Political Science 193-221 ()
  • Book ReviewNations and Nationalism 397-398 () (reviewing Encyclopaedia of Nationalism (Athena Leoussi ed., 2001))
  • Constitutional Design: Proposals Versus Processes, in The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy 15-36 (Andrew Reynolds ed, )
  • Domesticating Foreign Ideas in the Adoption of New Institutions: Evidence from Fiji and Indonesia, in Sovereignty Under Challenge 197-220 (John Montgomery & Nathan Glazer eds., )
  • Eating Leftovers: Making Peace from Scraps off the Negotiating Table, in Conflict and Cooperation 293-309 (Gnther Baechler & Andreas Wengers eds, )
  • The Primordialists, in Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World: Walker Connor and the Theory of Nationalism 78-82 (Daniele Conversi ed., )
  • The Indonesian Electoral and Political Parties Laws: An Assessment, in Crafting Indonesian Democracy 137-147 (R. William Liddle ed, )
  • The Northern Ireland Agreement: Clear, Consociational, and Risky, in Northern Ireland and the Divided World 89-108 (John McGarry ed., )
  • Constitutional Design: An Oxymoron?, in Designing Democratic Institutions 253-284 (Stephen Macedo & Ian Shapiro eds., )  (Nomos v.42) and 3 Democratic Culture 117-147 (2000)
  • Provisional Pessimism: A Reply to Van Parijs, in Designing Democratic Institutions 321-328 (Stephen Macedo & Ian Shapiro eds., )  (Nomos v.42)
  • Group Loyalty and Ethnic Violence, in Violent Conflict in the 21st Century 89-110 (Charles Hermann et al. eds., )
  • Structure and Strategy in Ethnic Conflict: A Few Steps Toward Synthesis, in Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 345-370 (Boris Pleskovic & Joseph E. Stiglitz eds., )
  • The Constitutional Logic of State Disintegration, 9 East European Constitutional Review 105-107 () (reviewing Robert M. Hayden, Blueprints for a House Divided: The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts (1999))
  • Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, and Law, in Ethnicity and Group Rights 421 (Ian Shapiro & Will Kymlicka eds., )  (Nomos v.39) (reprinted in National Self-Determination and Secession (Margaret Moore ed., 1998))
  • Encouraging Electorial Accommodation in Divided Societies, in Electoral Systems in Divided Societies: The Fiji Constitution Review (Brij Lal & Peter Larmour eds, )
  • The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868, 94 Michigan Law Review 1622 () (with Sara Sun Beale)
  • Conflict and the Incentives to Political Accommodation, in Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation (Dermot Keogh & Michael H. Haltzel eds., )
  • The Qur'an and the Common Law: Islamic Law Reform and the Theory of Legal Change, 42 American Journal of Comparative Law 233 ()
  • Democracy in Divided Societies, Journal of Democracy ()
  • Irredentas and Secessions: Adjacent Phenomena, Neglected Conditions, in Irredentism and International Politics 9 (N. Chazan ed., )  (reprinted in 33 International Journal of Comparative Sociology 118 (1993))
  • A Harvest of Hostility: Ethnic Conflict and Self-Determination After the Cold War, Defense Intelligence Journal 137 ()
  • Comparing Democratic Systems, in The Global Resurgence of Democracy (L. Diamond & M.F. Plattner eds., )
  • How to Begin Thinking Comparatively About Soviet Ethnic Problems, in Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities: History and Comparison in the Study of the USSR (Alexander J. Motyl ed., )
  • Immigration and Group Relations in France and America, in Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience (Donald L. Horowitz & Gerard Noiriel eds., )
  • Ethnic and Nationalist Conflicts, in World Security: Trends and Challenges at Century's End (M. Klare ed., )
  • Existe-t-il un modle europen d'integration?, in Politiques locales d'integration des minorities immigr+es en Europe (Didier Lapeyronnie ed., )
  • Ethnic Conflict Management for Policy-Makers, in Conflict and Peace-Making in Multiethnic Societies (J. Montville and H. Binnendijk eds., )
  • Making Moderation Pay: The Comparative Politics of Ethnic Conflict Management, in Conflict and Peace-Making in Multiethnic Societies (J. Montville and H. Binnendijk eds., )
  • Presidents vs. Parliaments: Comparing Democratic Systems, Journal of Democracy 73 ()
  • Cause and Consequence in Public Policy Theory: Ethnic Policy and System Transformation in Malaysia, 22 Policy Sciences 249 ()
  • Europe and America: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnicity, 5 Revue Europeen des Migrations Internationales 47 ()
  • Incentives and Behavior in the Ethnic Poltics of Sri Lanka and Malaysia, 1989 Third World Quarterly 18 ()
  • Is There a Third-World Policy Process?, 22 Policy Sciences 197 ()
  • The Constitution and the Art of Compromise, in The New Federalist Papers (J. Barlow et al. eds, )
  • The Voting Rights Act, in The New Federalist Papers (J. Barlow et al. eds., )
  • A Splitting Headache, New Republic 33 () (reviewing Y. Gooneratne, Relative Merits: A Personal Memoir of the Bandaranaike Family of Sri Lanka; S. Tambiah, Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy; and M. Moore, The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka (1986))
  • Is the Presidency Failing?, Public Interest 3 ()
  • Foreword: The Deprivatization of Labor Relations LawLaw and Contemporary Problems 1 ()
  • Justification and Excuse in the Program of the Criminal LawLaw and Contemporary Problems 109 ()
  • Conflict and Accommodation: Mexican-Americans in the Cosmopolis, in Mexican-Americans in Comparative Perspective (W. Connor ed., )
  • Decreeing Organizational Change: Judicial Supervision of Public Institutions, 1983 Duke Law Journal 1265 ()
  • Racial Violence in the United States, in Ethnic Pluralism and Public Policy: Achieving Equality in the United States and Britain (N. Glazer & K. Young eds., ) (abridged in 37 Bulletin - American Academy of Arts and Sciences 8 (Dec. 1983))
  • 97 Pol. Sci. Q. 564, 97 Political Science Quarterly 564-565 () (reviewing A. Smith, The Ethnic Revival in the Modern World (1981))
  • Book Review, 97 Political Science Quarterly 564 () (reviewing A. Smith, The Ethnic Revival in the Modern World)
  • The Judiciary: Umpire or Empire?, 6 Law and Human Behavior 129 ()
  • Patterns of Ethnic Separatism, 23 Comparative Study of Society & History 165 ()
  • Overcoming Barriers to the Use of Social Research in the Courts, in The Use/Misuse/Nonuse of Applied Social Research in the Courts (Saks and Barron eds.,, )
  • About-Face in Africa: The Return to Civilian Rule in Nigeria, 68 Yale Review 192 ()
  • Civil-Military Relations in a Multiethnic Society: The Case of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), 3 Asian Affairs 157 ()
  • The Worldwide Resurgence of Ethnicity, in U.S. International Communication Agency (Emerging Issues series, No. () (Emerging Issues series, No. 78-F-125 (1978))
  • Cultural Movements and Ethnic Change, 433 The Annals 6 ()
  • The Courts as Guardians of the Public Interest, 37 Public Adminstration Review 148 ()
  • Ethnic Identity, in Ethnicity: Theory and Experience III(Glazer and Moynihan eds. (Glazer & Moynihan eds., )
  • Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery, 3 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 509 ()
  • Direct, Displaced, and Cumulative Ethnic Aggression, 6 Comparative Politics 1 ()
  • Multiracial Politics in the New States: Toward a Theory of Conflict, in Issues in Comparative Politics (Jackson & Stein eds, )
  • Three Dimensions of Ethnic Politics, 23 World Politics 232 ()

Issues Edited

  • Special Editor, Public Policy in Developing Countries, Policy Sciences ()
  • Special Editor, Federal Regulation of Work from Recruitment to Retirement, Law and Contemporary Problems (Spring )

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Designing Constitutions for a Lasting DemocracyJudicature International () (with Elisabeth Perham)
  • Interethnic Vote Pooling, Institutional Frailty, and the Malaysian Elections of 2018I·CONnect: International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog ()
  • It's Time for a New Primary Electorial System, RealClear Politics ()
  • Unifying Iraq, Wall Street Journal (, at A16)
  • The Iraq Alternative, Wall Street Journal (, at A16)
  • Dangerous Stalemate in IraqWall Street Journal (, at A18)
  • The Sunni Moment, Wall Street Journal (, at A20)
  • After Apartheid, New Republic ()
  • The Constitution Abroad: It Could Be America's Greatest Export, Los Angeles Daily Journal (, at 4)
  • The Voting Rights Act at 20: Is It Being Misread By the Courts?, Los Angeles Daily Journal (, at 4)
Donald L. Horowitz portrait