Laws, Conventions, and Fake Constitutions Tóth, Gábor Attila Author aut Text xx# 2018 Verfassungsblog 2018-12-07 eng
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 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 Tóth, Gábor Attila Authoritarianism Constitutionalism democracy Majoritarianism 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/laws-conventions-and-fake-constitutions/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20181210-090741-0 181207 10.17176/20181210-090741-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)