Carl Schmitt in Hungary : constitutional crisis in the shadow of Covid-19

MÉSZÁROS, Gábor

doi:10.1163/15730352-bja10024

Carl Schmitt in Hungary : constitutional crisis in the shadow of Covid-19

dc.contributor.author	MÉSZÁROS, Gábor
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-07T12:18:36Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-07T12:18:36Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description	Online Publication Date: 24 Feb 2021	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper discusses Hungarian constitutionalism and the emergency model which can be called an ‘autocratic’ emergency model in which the government’s main aim is to create an emergency regime without real threat. That was the case in Hungary before 2020, but as the new coronavirus flourished the Hungarian constitutionalism and the rule of law withered. As the article asserts the declaration of the state of danger was unconstitutional because the human epidemic is not involved in the listing of the constitution. The constitutional concerns have become even more complicated after the acceptance of the “Enabling Act” which gave unconstrained power to the Government. The spirit of Carl Schmitt’s theory again emerges. As the coronavirus and its immediate effect necessitated extra-legal measures, the threshold between the rule of law and exceptionalism was fading swiftly and legal constitutionalism became a pleasant memory.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Review of central and east European law, 2021, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 69-90	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1163/15730352-bja10024
dc.identifier.endpage	90	en
dc.identifier.issn	0925-9880
dc.identifier.issn	1573-0352
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dc.identifier.startpage	69	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74412
dc.identifier.volume	46	en
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dc.publisher	Brill Nijhoff	en
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dc.title	Carl Schmitt in Hungary : constitutional crisis in the shadow of Covid-19	en
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