k 2023

A Hybrid Judiciary in a Hybrid Regime: A Case Study on Hungary

HANELT, Etienne

Základní údaje

Originální název

A Hybrid Judiciary in a Hybrid Regime: A Case Study on Hungary

Autoři

HANELT, Etienne (276 Německo, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Nuffield Early Career Workshop in Socio-Legal Studies, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2023

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50501 Law

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14220/23:00133122

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

courts; hybrid regime; rule of law; Hungary; informal institutions

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam
Změněno: 2. 4. 2024 17:43, Mgr. Petra Georgala

Anotace

V originále

Hybrid regimes occupy a middle ground between democracies and autocracies. We argue that the same applies to their rule of law. Just as hybrid regimes maintain the façade of democracy, they sustain judiciaries that seemingly mirror those of a functioning Rechtsstaat. Due to constitutional and international demands for judicial independence, informal means are used to exercise control over judges, making a focus on legal characteristics insufficient to detect their actual functioning. Through an in-depth case study of Hungary’s judiciary after 2010, we show that ‘constitutional tinkering’ and informal clientelistic networks, used to control the executive and legislative branches, were also applied to the judiciary. Still, they remain underdeveloped because of the domestic and external restraints of judicial independence. Since reliable hard data is not available, we build our paper on interviews with Hungarian judges conducted in 2022. Based on these, we test the validity of existing theories and leverage thick descriptions to explain the means of control over judges.

Návaznosti

101002660, interní kód MU
Název: Informal Judicial Institutions: Invisible Determinants of Democratic Decay (Akronym: INFINITY)
Investor: Evropská unie, Informal Judicial Institutions: Invisible Determinants of Democratic Decay, ERC (Excellent Science)