Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law? The Impact of EU Enlargement on the Rule of Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Legal Orders /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sadurski, Wojciech (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Czarnota, Adam (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Krygier, Martin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Θέματα: Law.; Political science.; Political philosophy.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Public international law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Public International Law.; Political Science.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Philosophy.

The accession of eight post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (and also of Malta and Cyprus) to the European Union in 2004 has been heralded as perhaps the most important development in the history of European integration so far. While the impact of the enlargement on the constitutio...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Democratic Institutions and Practices
• EU Enlargement and Democracy in New Member States
• The Eastern EU Enlargement and the Janus-headed Nature of the Constitutional Treaty
• A Problem of their Own, Solutions of their Own: CEE Jurisdictions and the Problems of Lustration and Retroactivity
• Citizens and Foreigners in the Enlarged Europe
• Sub-National Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Transition and Europeanization
• The Copenhagen Criteria and the Evolution of Popular Consent to EU Norms: From Legality to Normative Justifiability in Poland and the Czech Republic
• Constitutionalism
• Becoming “Europeans”: The Impact of EU “Constitutionalism” on Post-Communist Pre-Modernity
• Happy Returns to Europe? The Union’s Identity, Constitution-Making, and its Impact on the Central European Accession States
• An Evolutionary Approach to the Constitutionalism of an Enlarged EU: Why will Cognitive and Cultural Boundaries Matter?
• Constitutional Tolerance and EU Enlargement: The Politics of Dissent?
• Europeanization Through Judicial Activism? The Hungarian Constitutional Court’s Legitimacy and the “Return to Europe”
• The Rule of Law
• Barbarians ante portas or the Post-Communist Rule of Law in Post-Democratic European Union
• Transformation and Integration of Legal Cultures and Discourses—Poland
• EU Enlargement and the Constitutional Principle of Judicial Independence
• Post-Communist Legal Orders and the Roma: Some Implications for EU Enlargement
• A Europe of Variable Geometry: Still a Winning Model?
• Concluding Remarks
• Conclusions: The Adhesion of New Member States to the European Union and the European Constitution.