Constitutional democracy
By: by János Kis ; [English translation by Zoltán Miklósi]
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: CEU Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780585464329
Subjects: Democracy; Liberalism; Constitutional courts; Free enterprise; Libéralisme; Cours constitutionnelles; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Political Process; Political Advocacy
Work titles: Alkotmányos demokrácia
Description: "This book addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values: those of liberal rights in 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 Janos Kis examines and tries to refute."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Common Good and Civic Virtue -- -- 1.; title: Liberalism and republicanism -- -- 2.; title: preference-aggregating model -- -- 3.; title: ethical model: the responsible voter -- -- 4.; title: ethical model: the relation between private and communal preferences -- -- 5.; title: ethical model: public debate and voting -- -- 6.; title: On the relation of the two models -- -- 7.; title: Liberalism and the descriptive claims of the ethical model -- -- 8.; title: Virtue in politics -- -- 9.; title: politics of virtue and personal autonomy -- -- 10.; title: Concluding remarks --; title: Liberal Democracy -- Against the Compromise Thesis -- -- 1.; title: Introduction -- -- 2.; title: conflict -- -- 3.; title: Constitutional constraints, constitutional review -- -- 4.; title: Political equality and rule by the majority -- -- 5.; title: Equality of votes and equality of voters -- -- 6.; title: Contractarian theory: the selection of voting rules -- -- 7.; title: weakness of contractarian theory -- -- 8.; title: typology of preferences -- -- 9.; title: Filtering the preferences of the contracting parties -- -- 10.; title: Moral discussion before the contract -- -- 11.; title: mandate of the guardians of the constitution -- -- 12.; title: Summary and restrictions --; title: Constitutional Review -- -- 1.; title: Introduction -- -- 1.1.; title: Two Conceptions -- -- 1.2.; title: Questions of Principle and Questions of Regulation -- -- 1.3.; title: Means of Judicial Interpretation of the Constitution -- -- 1.4.; title: Brief Overview of What Follows -- -- 2.; title: Interpreting the constitution -- -- 2.1.; title: Popular Sovereignty -- -- 2.2.; title: Only That Which is "in the Text" -- -- 2.3.; title: Strict Reading -- -- 2.4.; title: Historical Readings -- -- 2.5.; title: Substantive Readings: Structural Interpretations -- -- 2.6.; title: Substantive Interpretations: the Moral Reading -- -- 2.7.; title: Special Objections: the Structural Reading -- -- 2.8.; title: Special Objections: the Moral Reading -- -- 2.9.; title: Substantive Readings: Critical Interpretation -- -- 2.10.; title: General Objections against Substantive Reading -- -- 2.11.; title: Constitution Making -- -- 3.; title: Striking down legislation -- -- 3.1.; title: Once again on Popular Sovereignty.