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Moral Definitions of Constitutionalism in East Central Europe

Facing Past Human Rights Violations

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ID7822652
AuthorsGrażyna Skąpska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume18
Issue1
Pages199-218
Publication date2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0268-5809 • E-ISSN: 1461-7242
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0268580903018001011
OpenAlexW2075569816
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited9

In this article the approaches to past gross human rights violations are analysed as moral foundations of post-dictatorial or post-totalitarian constitutionalism. The theoretical perspective adopted stresses the discursive elaboration of the past as a means of legitimization for the new political system, and as justification of institutionalized approaches towards the perpetrators and instigators. In light of this, the author investigates the political and cultural discourses, trying to answer the question concerning the great differences among institutional reactions towards past human rights violations in Eastern and Central Europe

Constitutionalism · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Philosophy

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Citations per year0,28
Citation span2008 - 2025 (18)
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