Building democracy by legal means? The contestation of human rights and constitutionalism in East-Central Europe
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F20%3A10416341" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/20:10416341 - isvavai.cz</a>
Výsledek na webu
<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>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Building democracy by legal means? The contestation of human rights and constitutionalism in East-Central Europe
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
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 'counter-constitutional' 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.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Building democracy by legal means? The contestation of human rights and constitutionalism in East-Central Europe
Popis výsledku anglicky
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 'counter-constitutional' 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.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
—
OECD FORD obor
50401 - Sociology
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
<a href="/cs/project/GA18-25924S" target="_blank" >GA18-25924S: Transnacionální populismus a evropská demokracie</a><br>
Návaznosti
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2020
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Journal of Modern European History
ISSN
1611-8944
e-ISSN
—
Svazek periodika
18
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
3
Stát vydavatele periodika
DE - Spolková republika Německo
Počet stran výsledku
17
Strana od-do
335-351
Kód UT WoS článku
000551009400015
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85085978762