Bending the law to a breaking point: political challenges in local government

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bending the law to a breaking point: political challenges in local government
Original language description
The paper analyzes the mechanisms that allow certain patterns of participation in local government that defy the regularities of law to exist and to be regarded as legitimate. The paper argues that the patterns are a crystallization of the deep and massive anomic processes in all social spheres and levels, a result of the heavy and long existing political and social crisis induced mainly by the cumulative effects of the transformation (in Bulgaria and in other post-communist countries). The patterns contradicting the rule of law emerge as an attempt for adaptation and reintegration ? as an attempt for creating new structures by introduction of rules and practices form other social spheres. Thus, the most significant factor for the acceptance of the patterns and for approval of the actors accomplishing them is whether or not they (the patterns and/or the actors) are perceived as potentially capable of bringing societal change and reintegration, i.e. the type of pattern that is implement
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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