Constitution for a disunited nation : on Hungary's 2011 fundamental law / / edited by Gábor Attila Tóth

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959285303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-003-71892-2; 1-283-83609-2; 615-5225-57-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 570 pages)
• Classificazione: NQ 8220
• Altri autori (Persone): TóthGábor Attila <1970->
• Disciplina: 342.439
• Soggetti: Constitutional law - Hungary; Hungary Alaptörvény; European 6 Russia & Eastern
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Published in 2012 by Central European University Press.; Printed in Hungary by Prime Rate Kft., Budapest.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : from the 1989 constitution to the 2011 fundamental law / János Kis -- What democracy is? / Ronald Dworkin -- Regime change, revolution and legitimacy / Andrew Arato -- Constitution-making, competition and cooperation / Zoltán Miklósi -- A sacred symbol in a secular country : the holy crown / Sándor Radnóti -- From "we the people" to "we the nation" / Zsolt Körtvelyesi -- Human dignity : rhetoric, protection and instrumentalisation / Catherine Dupre -- Equality : the missing link / Kriszta Kovács -- Freedom of religion and churches : archeology in a constitution-making assembly / Renáta Uitz -- From separation of powers to a government without checks : hungary's old and new constitutions / Miklós Bánkuti, Gábor Halmai and Kim Lane Scheppele -- Between revolution and constitution : the roles of the Hungarian Constitutional Court / Christian Boulanger, Oliver W. Lembcke -- Governance, accountability and the market / Márton Varju -- No new(s), good news? : the fundamental law and the European law / András Bragyova -- Trees in the wood : the fundamental law and the European Court of Human Rights / Jeremy McBride.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection is the most comprehensive account of the Fundamental Law and its underlying principles. The objective is to analyze this constitutional transition from the perspectives of comparative constitutional law, legal theory and political philosophy. The authors outline and analyze how the current constitutional changes are altering the basic structure of the Hungarian State. The key concepts of the theoretical inquiry are sociological and normative legitimacy, majoritarian and partnership approach to democracy, procedural and substantive elements of constitutionalism. Changes are also examined in the field of human rights, focusing on the principles of equality, dignity, and civil liberties.

Published essays, 1953-1965 / / Eric Voegelin; edited with an introduction by Ellis Sandoz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955837503321
• Autore: Voegelin Eric <1901-1985.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, Mo. ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, c2000
• ISBN: 0-8262-6396-8
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 273 p
• Collana: Collected works of Eric Voegelin ; ; v.11
• Altri autori (Persone): SandozEllis <1931-2023.>
• Disciplina: 320
• Soggetti: Political science; Social sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- Summary -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The period covered by the material published in this volume marks the transition in Eric Voegelin's career from Louisiana to Munich. After twenty years in the United States, in 1958 Voegelin accepted an invitation to fill the political science chair at Ludwig Maximilian University, a position left vacant throughout the Nazi period and last occupied by the famous Max Weber, who had died in 1920. The themes most prominent in the fourteen items reprinted here reflect the concerns of a transition, not only in a scholar's career, and in the ; momentous shifts in world politics taking place around him, but also in the development of his understanding of the stratification of reality and the attendant demands for a science of human affairs adequate to the challenges posed by the persistent crisis of the West in its latest configurations and by contemporary philosophy. Several of the items herein originated as talks to a specific organization on problems facing German democratization and the development of a market economy amid the ruins of a fragmented culture and infrastructure in a society without historically evolved institutional supports for a satisfactory social and political order. Accordinglyc pragmatic matters occupy a central place in a number of these pieces, especially the overriding question of how Germany could move from an illiberal and ideological political order into a modern liberal democratic one. Those accustomed to the theoretical profundity of Voegelin's writings may find welcome relief in the down-to-earth, commonsensical drift of this material addressed, often, to laymen and businessmen. But, of course, the philosophical subject matter lurks everywhere. It finds full expression in several instances as the controlling context of even the least pretentious presentations. One of the attractions of these essays is what the author brings forward as serviceable elementary guideposts under adverse conditions of intellectual disarray, social decay, and turmoil.