1st Edition
New Democracies in Crisis? A Comparative Constitutional Study of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia
1. Introduction: New Democracies in crisis? 2. A critique of legal constitutionalism 3. The prominence of legal constitutionalism in the new democracies 4. Rudiments of civic constitutionalism 5. Searching for civic constitutionalism: A comparative analysis 6. Constitutional democracy under strain: Europeanization and legal resentment 7. Conclusions: New democracies in crisis?
Biography
Paul Blokker is principle investigator in the research unit ‘Constitutional Politics in Post-Westphalian Europe’ (CoPolis) at the University of Trento, Italy.
'Blokker suggests a novel solution to a well-recognized set of concerns with the state of democracy in the CEE, which is more elaborate and, arguably, more convincing on a conceptual than on an experiential level. Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that this book is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate over the complexities of post-communist politics.' - Bogusia Puchalska
