EU rule-of-law conditionality and uncivic Hungary. Can you buy the rule of law?

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

EU rule-of-law conditionality and uncivic Hungary. Can you buy the rule of law?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Civic values of the general public are rarely mentioned when Hungary&apos;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&apos;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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

EU rule-of-law conditionality and uncivic Hungary. Can you buy the rule of law?

Popis výsledku anglicky

Civic values of the general public are rarely mentioned when Hungary&apos;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&apos;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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LL2106" target="_blank" >LL2106: Identita a konstitucionalismus: Schopnost ústav formovat politická společenství v regionu EU-MENAP</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Civic and Uncivic Values in Hungary. Value Transformation, Politics, and Religion

ISBN

978-1-03-278651-3

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

83-100

Počet stran knihy

256

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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