1. Introduction Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser; Part I. The Category: 2. Ruling against rules Adam Przeworski; 3. Authoritarian constitutionalism: some conceptual considerations Mark Tushnet; Part II. Constitutional Design in Authoritarian Regimes: 4. The political economy of autocratic constitutions Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo; 5. Authoritarian constitution making: the role of the military in Latin America Gabriel Negretto; 6. Constitutions in authoritarian regimes: the Egyptian constitution of 1971 Kristen Stilt; Part III. Contents of Authoritarian Constitutions: 7. The content of authoritarian constitutions Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins and James Melton; 8. Constitutional variation among strains of authoritarianism David S. Law and Mila Versteeg; Part IV. Consequences of Authoritarian Constitutions: 9. The role of presidential power in authoritarian elections Jennifer Gandhi; 10. The informal politics of formal constitutions: rethinking the effects of 'presidentialism' and 'parliamentarism' in the cases of Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine Henry E. Hale; 11. The Party's leadership as a living constitution in China He Xin.