Constitutional “postmodernism” or also the modernization of classical constitutional models

• Authors: Karel Klíma
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The revolutionary political changes of the 1990s led to processes culminating in installation of new constitutional democracies in Central and Eastern European countries. Adoption of new constitutions was thus linked both to use of established models of classical Western democracies and to the constitutional creativity of new democratically elected authorities. The constitutional changes thus focused mainly on the installation of the separation of powers in the model of parliamentary form of government, the development of the concept of territorial self-governing units, the installation of so-called independent constitutional bodies, the constitutional enshrinement of the classical catalogue of fundamental rights and freedoms, and the constitutional establishment of constitutional review through constitutional courts. From the comparative point of view, the constitutional character of new democracies thus clearly demonstrates their modernising usefulness and enrichment of the experience of classical constitutionalism.

Keywords

EN

constitutional models; new constitutional democracies; separation of powers; parliamentary form of government; constitutional state; territorial self-governing units; independent administrative bodies; fundamental human rights and freedoms

Discipline

• LAW_&_ADMINISTRATION: LAW & ADMINISTRATION

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Data a výzkum - SDA Info (Data and Research - SDA Info)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 143-163
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karel Klíma

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