342 Pages
by
Central European University Press
342 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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 values of liberalism. It is these theses that János Kis examines and tries to refute. Making the... Read more
Introduction, Notes, THE COMMON GOOD AND CIVIC VIRTUE, LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AGAINST THE COMPROMISE THESIS, CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW, THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST HUNGARIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT, Index
Biography
János Kis is professor of political science and of philosophy at the Central European University, and Senior Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute.
