Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

PL EN


2005 | 41 | 4 | 563-582

Article title

Tradice, kodifikace a interpretace občanského a etnického pojetí národa: úvaha o časové dimenzi ústavnosti a ústavním symbolismu

Authors

Content

Title variants

EN
THE TRADITION, CODIFICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CIVIC AND THE ETHNIC CONCEPTS OF THE NATION: REFLECTIONS ON THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION OF CONSTITUTIONALITY AND CONSTITUTIONAL SYMBOLISM

Languages of publication

CS

Abstracts

EN
This article deals with the constitutional developments and legal policy in Central Europe since 1989 and focuses on a temporal analysis of and the difference between the demos and ethnos concepts of the nation in the political and legal systems. Drawing on several social theories of time, identity and the codification of social traditions, the author claims that the difference between the civic and the ethnic concepts of the nation does not relate just to the conflict between the liberal-democratic aspirations and ethno-nationalistic myths of authoritarian politicians. The concepts rather represent two distinct traditions, manipulated by political officials and codified in the constitutional processes. The political manipulation of the past and the process of selecting from among different traditions are manifest at the level of constitutional symbolism and in the specific government programmes that have arisen in post-communist Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. In the concluding part the author presents an analysis of the relationship between the abstract and symbolic language of constitutional documents and the concrete, ethnically determined legal policies in Central European countries.

Keywords

Year

Volume

41

Issue

4

Pages

563-582

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

author
  • J. Priban, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, Law Building, Museum Ave, Cardiff CF10 3AT, Wales, UK

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
07CZAAAA03096380

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.1c38ecf1-2e2c-3002-a8b5-e8c1278ea571
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.