I'm looking for books and articles broadly surveying formal (though not necessarily written) 'constitutions' or systems of governance throughout history, for governments but also private societies and businesses, with an emphasis on pros and cons and procedural details which are thought to have played a critical role in successes and failures of the system.

My motivation is to inform the design of future governance procedures (e.g. "this bylaw that you have proposed reminds me of tradition X of Organization A circa 1000 BC, and here's a problem that X caused them: ...; and here's an alternative procedure Y that Organization B used circa 500 BC that seemed to work out better").

Opinionated texts are fine; stuff like Bagehot's book The English Constitution or de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is what I'm after, except that for the most part these focus on just a few systems contemporary at the time of writing (England, America, France), and I'm looking for surveys over many places and many time periods (for example, perhaps a survey would briefly cover the governance procedures of each of ancient China, ancient Sparta, ancient Athens, ancient Republican Rome, medieval guilds, the Hanseatic League, the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman, France under Louis XIV, the French Reign of Terror and what went wrong, the French Consulate, Weimar Germany and how Hitler took power, Soviet Russia and how Stalin took power, the modern UK, and modern US corporations).