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The Twin Challenges to Separation of Powers in Central Europe: Technocratic Governance and Populism

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KOSAŘ David BAROŠ Jiří DUFEK Pavel

Year of publication 2019
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source European Constitutional Law Review
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Faculty of Law

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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1574019619000336
Keywords Separation of Powers; Technocratic Governance; Central Europe; Populism
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Description Separation of institutions, functions and personnel – Checks and balances – Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia – Short tradition of separation of powers in Central Europe – Fragile interwar systems of separation of powers – Communist principle of centralisation of power – Technocratic challenge to separation of powers during the EU accession – One-sided checks on the elected branches and empowering technocratic elitist institutions – Populist challenge to separation of powers in the 2010s – Re-politicising of the public sphere, removing most checks on the elected branches, and curtailing and packing the unelected institutions – Technocratic and populist challenges to separation of powers interrelated more than we thought.
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