nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181210-090741-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 181207s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181210-090741-0 doi eng 342 23 Tóth, Gábor Attila Author aut Laws, Conventions, and Fake Constitutions Tóth, Gábor Attila Verfassungsblog 2018-12-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Does pure majoritarian decision making have intrinsic value or offer better consequences for society? The case of Hungary is not isolated but is an integral part of a global phenomenon. In contrast with earlier waves of democratization that spread across the globe, more recent tendencies have led to the disintegration of democracies. Not only Hungary and Poland (two EU Member States), but also Russia (probably the first regime of this kind), and many other countries from Azerbaijan to Venezuela epitomize this phenomenon, in which the country in question adopts — apparently in a democratic manner — a legal transformation that moves it ever further from, rather than toward, democratic principles. Given that today democracy counts solely as a legitimate constitutional system, the most salient new feature is that authoritarianism must play at being democracy. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Authoritarianism Constitutionalism democracy Majoritarianism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/laws-conventions-and-fake-constitutions/ raw object