Reversing Liberal Legality
Romania’s Path to Dictatorship, 1930–1938
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8252996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cosmin Cercel (0000-0002-7327-0568, East Sussex County Council, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 23-51 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Romanian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2754-415X • E-ISSN: 2627-5325 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/jrns.2020.2.2.02 |
| OpenAlex | W4379413207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Romania’s anti-liberal turn at the end of the interwar period is a useful case study for analysing the dissolution of the liberal nomos fostered by the Versailles arrangements against the background of the authoritarian takeover in Europe. In this article, I explore the legal and constitutional mechanisms at the core of the instauration of King’s Carol II dictatorship. I propose to do so by mapping the reconstruction of the concepts of legality and authority within the political and legal processes seeking to contest, challenge and ultimately reverse the liberal features of the constitutional armature of the Romanian state. Drawing on jurisprudence, political theory, and constitutional history, I seek to unearth the ideological underpinnings of this regime of power and to reflect on the nexus between law and anti-liberal projects of state-building at the end of the interwar period
Authoritarianism · Classical liberalism · Constitution · CONTEST · Democracy · Dictatorship · Ideology · Jurisprudence · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Sociology · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |