The Invisible Constitution
The Construction of Constitutional Reality in Hungary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9951744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katalin Füzér (0000-0002-1051-5716, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 48-65 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7659 • E-ISSN: 1557-9336 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15579336.1996.11770147 |
| OpenAlex | W2554153637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
The paper gives a preliminary analysis of the construction of Hungarian constitutional reality by employing the social constructionist frame of the sociology of knowledge. The practice of the Hungarian Constitutional Court is examined as the main locus of this social construction. In particular, the analysis focuses on some of the concrete interpretive techniques developed by the Court. These techniques contribute to the overall coherence of the body of constitutional law that the Court has been writing since 1990. In contemplating the hermeneutic situation of constitutional adjudication, the paper argues that the freedom the Court judges exercise in this process is a hermeneutically bounded one, confined by a variety of factors, including the self-imposed techniques that are analyzed in the paper
Adjudication · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy · Constitution · Constitutional court · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Social constructionism · Social reality · Social science · Sociology · Strict constructionism · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |