The Causes of the 1963 Constitutional Breakdown: Which Factors Affected the Short Life of the 1960 Cyprus Constitution?

Abstract

The literature tends to attribute the constitutional failure in Cyprus to the constitutional design and the imposed character of the constitution-making process. Without ignoring the impact of such factors on the constitutional breakdown of 1963, the aim of this paper is to shed light on the other factors that contributed to constitutional paralysis, such as the perceptions of the constitutional actors about their institutional roles and the impact of constitutional narratives on the formation of these perceptions.