Dissidents of Law: On the 1989 Velvet Revolutions, Legitimations, Fictions of Legality and Contemporary Version of the Social Contract

ISBN-13: 9781138737068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Jirí Pribán

Opis

First published in 2003. Following the anti-communist revolutions of 1989, former communist societies started the unprecedented process of transformation. This book sets out to prove that legitimation cannot be secured by the legal system and depends on the external strategy of dissent.

Recenzje

’...a fascinating, engrossing study of the problem of political legitimation in democratic political systems...this is an important and welcome book, provocative...and intriguing...Priban will be a cherished intellectual guide and companion.’ East European Constitutional Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Legitimacy without a sovereign people; Legal legitimacy and legalist fictions; Post communist legitimations and constitutional justice; The legal system and its environment: the conditions of the process of legitimation; The centre and periphery of legality: the strategy of dissent; Legitimation fictions and power of the contractual model.