Out of and into Authoritarian Law

CONTENTS......Page 6
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
Erosion and Decline of the Rule of Law in Post-Communism: An Introduction......Page 10
PART I – OUT OF AUTHORITARIANISM......Page 26
1 Transitional Justice as Liberal Narrative......Page 28
2 Hungarian Criminal Court Cases Concerning the (Retribution of the) 1956 Revolution......Page 40
3 Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Third Way......Page 56
4 Justice without Punishment: Guaranteeing Human Rights in Transitional Societies......Page 78
5 Constitutional Democracy or How to Prevent the Rule of the People......Page 100
6 The Democratic Limits to Authoritarianism in Democracy (When the State Knows Better What is Good for the People)......Page 122
7 The Making of the Hungarian Constitution......Page 136
PART II – INTO AUTHORITARIAN LAW......Page 148
8 The Inherent Authoritarianism in Democratic Regimes......Page 150
9 Police Power for a New Century? Constitutional Traps and Constitutional Options Regarding Some Authoritarian Trends in Police Law......Page 176
10 Losing Track of Democracy: Post-Totalitarian Policing in Hungary......Page 194
11 Public Administration and the Tendency to Authoritarianism......Page 212
12 On Post-Fascism: How Citizenship is Becoming an Exclusive Privilege......Page 228
13 The Quality of Civility: Post-Anti-Communist Thoughts on Civil Society and the Rule of Law......Page 246
14 The Unmaking of Hungarian Constitutionalism?......Page 282
15 The Republic of Belarus: The Road from the Past to the Past......Page 290