nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181026-145319-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 181023s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181026-145319-0 doi eng 342 23 Ovádek, Michal Author aut Constitutional Pluralism between Normative Theory and Empirical Fact Ovádek, Michal Verfassungsblog 2018-10-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It has been recently floated in legal academia and the blogosphere that it is high time for constitutional pluralism to bow out of the European scene. The reason? It has been alleged to be (1) “fundamentally flawed and unsustainable” for allowing the application of EU law to be selective and unequal and (2) prone to abuse by autocrats, as demonstrated by the ongoing dismantling of democracy and the rule of law in Hungary and Poland where national (“constitutional”) identity is invoked all too often to justify patently illiberal policies. Is constitutional pluralism really to blame? What is this beast anyway? CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Pluralism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/constitutional-pluralism-between-normative-theory-and-empirical-fact/ raw object