Constitutional Democracy /

Constitutional Democracy / / János Kis.

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Constitutional democracy addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values: those of liberal rights on the one hand, and democratic equality on the other. Liberalism is said to compromise democracy, while democracy is said to endanger the va...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Kis, János,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2003
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • NOTES
  • THE COMMON GOOD AND CIVIC VIRTUE
  • 1. Liberalism and republicanism
  • 2. The preference-aggregating model
  • 3. The ethical model: the responsible voter
  • 4. The ethical model: the relation between private and communal preferences
  • 5. The ethical model: public debate and voting
  • 6. On the relation of the two models
  • 7. Liberalism and the descriptive claims of the ethical model
  • 8. Virtue in politics
  • 9. The politics of virtue and personal autonomy
  • 10. Concluding remarks
  • LIBERAL DEMOCRACY – AGAINST THE COMPROMISE THESIS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The conflict
  • 3. Constitutional constraints, constitutional review
  • 4. Political equality and rule by the majority
  • 5. Equality of votes and equality of voters
  • 6. Contractarian theory: the selection of voting rules
  • 7. A weakness of contractarian theory
  • 8. The typology of preferences
  • 9. Filtering the preferences of the contracting parties
  • 10. Moral discussion before the contract
  • 11. The mandate of the guardians of the constitution
  • 12. Summary and restrictions
  • CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Interpreting the constitution
  • 3. Striking down legislation
  • THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST HUNGARIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
  • 1. The interpretive practice of the Constitutional Court
  • 2. Summary and a glance to the future
  • Index

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