Building democracy by legal means? The contestation of human rights and constitutionalism in East-Central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kG7a._EW5G" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kG7a._EW5G</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1611894420925756" target="_blank" >10.1177/1611894420925756</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Building democracy by legal means? The contestation of human rights and constitutionalism in East-Central Europe

Original language description

The main argument in the article is that liberal democracy, human rights, and the idea of constitutionalism have remained contested in the transformation processes in East-Central Europe since 1989. The prevalent literature in the legal and political sciences have understood the changes in East-Central Europe since 1989 as a transitional process in which legality, the rule of law, constitutionalism, and human rights became increasingly taken for granted. The liberal-constitutional project did however not find, in fact, widespread adherence. Most conspicuously so in Hungary (since 2010), and also in Poland (since 2015), the post-1989 constitutional-democratic narrative has become an explicit point of reference for conservative &apos;counter-constitutional&apos; projects, which seek to undo some of the key premises of liberal-constitutional democracy. I hence argue that the post-1989 transformations have not ended and continue to be characterized by enduring contestation over constitutionalism, (foundational) norms, and human rights, as well as diverging interpretations of the finalité of the post-communist project of democratic society. A key finding is that the current populist resentment towards post-1989 liberal democratization builds to an important extent on culturally rearticulated legacies of non-liberal and conservative understandings of society.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-25924S" target="_blank" >GA18-25924S: Transnational Populism and European Democracy</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Modern European History

ISSN

1611-8944

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

335-351

UT code for WoS article

000551009400015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85085978762