Unpacking the separation of powers
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Unpacking the separation of powers
Original language description
The concept of separation of powers can be used as a slogan, as an idea, or as a concept. On the conceptual level, it may be endowed with many different, even incompatible, meanings. To understand the contemporary challenges to separation of powers, both old and new, we thus need a more scrupulous theoretical and conceptual understanding of the principle. Accordingly, this chapter first embeds separation of powers in the broader context of modern constitutionalism and distinguishes its limiting and enabling rationales. Second, it unpacks separation of powers into four constitutive components: separation of institutions, separation of functions, personal incompatibility, and checks and balances. Third, it shows how important it is to distinguish these components when analysing the recent populist attacks on separation of powers both in Central Europe and beyond and stresses the significance of the temporal dimension of populist rule. Finally, it calls for greater scholarly attention to the limiting rationale of separation of powers, to the impact of the rise of unelected actors, and to the interconnectedness between separation of powers and the problem of political representation.
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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
50500 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-11091S" target="_blank" >GA19-11091S: Beyond Public Reason? Critiques and Defences of the Liberal Agenda of Public Justification</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
New Challenges to the Separation of Powers : Dividing Power
ISBN
9781788975261
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
124-143
Number of pages of the book
263
Publisher name
Edward Elgar publishing
Place of publication
Cheltenham
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