Administrative Law as a Dual State. Authoritarian Elements of Administrative Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21822397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bas Schotel (0000-0002-9203-1001, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 195-222 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1876-4045 • E-ISSN: 1876-4053 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s40803-021-00156-4 |
| OpenAlex | W3160439017 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
Scholars have recently shown how in Europe regimes in democratic decay (e.g. Poland, Hungary) take all sorts of measures targeting and marginalizing political opponents. Although they are authoritarian by nature, the measures are cast in a legal form. According to some scholars this kind of authoritarian rule of law can be best understood as a dual state, namely a combination of the normative state (the rule of law) and the prerogative state (the pure—political or arbitrary—will of those in power). Building on these insights, the present paper makes two new observations. First, administrative law is distinctively well suited to cater for the creation of a dual state. By distinctively I mean better than civil and criminal law. In fact, I argue that administrative law constitutes a dual state in and of itself combining normative and prerogative state elements within a single area of law, in ways that cannot be done under civil and criminal law. Second, not only regimes in democratic decay but also liberal democracies make use of the dual state nature of administrative law. The paper illustrates this point with two techniques whereby liberal democracies use administrative law to circumvent or pervert the normal operation of criminal law, namely crimmigration and the alien detention of citizens. My underlying normative point is to draw attention to the inherent authoritarian potential of administrative law
Administrative law · Authoritarianism · Comparative law · Criminal law · Democracy · Law and economics · Municipal law · Normative · Philosophy of law · Political science · Politics · Prerogative · Private law · Public law · Rule of law · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |