EU rule-of-law conditionality and uncivic Hungary. Can you buy the rule of law?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11220%2F24%3A10490037" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11220/24:10490037 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003488842-7" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003488842-7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003488842-7" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003488842-7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
EU rule-of-law conditionality and uncivic Hungary. Can you buy the rule of law?
Original language description
Civic values of the general public are rarely mentioned when Hungary's rule-of-law-backsliding is discussed: it is usually seen as the fault of the governing party exclusively. Although the government indeed has been striving for cementing its power through cynical practices and legal reforms, certain social attitudes have central role in their recurring election victories. Civic engagement in post-socialist Hungary is mostly limited to the demand for democratically establishing state authority, but the significance of controlling the own democratically legitimised government is not perceived as pivotal.I take the debate over the rule of law between Hungary and the EU as an example to illustrate that reducing such debates to institutional and legal technicalities can be counterproductive if social reality and public demands are overlooked. My analysis focuses on the EU's recently introduced financial conditionality requirements to stop rule of law backsliding in member states.Some of these conditionality requirements not just lack the proper legal background, but the reforms they enforced in Hungary mostly disfunction. Finally, I argue that punctual institutional reforms may only be durable solutions for systemic rule of law problems, if they are able to establish or strengthen the demand for the rule of law by society.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LL2106" target="_blank" >LL2106: Identity Constitutionalism. The Community-building Capacity of Constitutions in the EU-MENAP Region</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Civic and Uncivic Values in Hungary. Value Transformation, Politics, and Religion
ISBN
978-1-03-278651-3
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
83-100
Number of pages of the book
256
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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