Max Weber Programme (MWP): Recent submissions
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Title:Governing without being in power? : controversial promises for a new transition to the rule of law in Hungary Author(s):BAKÓ, Beáta Csilla
Date:2022Citation:Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 2022, Vol. 82, pp. 223-254Type:ArticleAbstract:After 12 years of the governance of the national-conservative Fidesz in Hungary, from 2020 on, there seemed to be a real chance that the united opposition would win the election in Spring 2022. But even if the current ...
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Title:The changes undermining the functioning of a constitutional democracy Author(s):FLECK, Zoltán; KOVÁCS, Ágnes; KÖRTVÉLYESI, Zsolt; MÉSZÁROS, Gábor ; POLYÁK, GáborDate:2022Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:MTA Law Working Papers; 2022/09Abstract:This paper reviews the changes that relate to institutions that play a central role in maintaining a functioning democracy. The chapters document how these institutions and areas where, one by one, transformed to undermine ...
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Title:Is the EU toothless? : an assessment of the EU rule of law enforcement toolkit Author(s):BÁRD, Petra Dóra ; CHRONOWSKI, Nóra; FLECK, Zoltán; KOVÁCS, Ágnes; KÖRTVÉLYESI, Zsolt; MÉSZÁROS, Gábor Date:2022Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:MTA Law Working Papers; 2022/08Abstract:This paper lists and critically assesses European Rule of Law enforcement instruments. It argues that these could have provided dissuasive responses to severe and systemic Rule of Law violations in Hungary, had they been ...
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Title:The Hungarian constitutional court and the abusive constitutionalism Author(s):CHRONOWSKI, Nóra; KOVÁCS, Ágnes; KÖRTVÉLYESI, Zsolt; MÉSZÁROS, Gábor Date:2022Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:MTA Law Working Papers; 2022/07Abstract:As part of the paper series on the rule of law backsliding in Hungary in the past decade this article focuses on the role of the Constitutional Court, and explains the constitutional developments in Hungary, in the first ...
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Title:‘Reform or revolution’, redux : Eduard Bernstein on the 1918–19 German revolution Author(s):OSTROWSKI, Marius Date:2022Citation:Historical research, 2022, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:The 1918–19 German Revolution forced an abrupt moment of decision among German socialists on the question of ‘social reform or revolution’. This article traces the arguments of Eduard Bernstein, the founder of ‘reformism’, ...
