In this paper, I argue that the contemporary conservative, populist engagement with the law in a number of East-Central European societies is – at least in part – a reaction to what is portrayed as legal fundamentalism or an excessive juridification of society. Populism is to an important extent driven by the opposite idea, that...
Tag: <span>Paul Blokker</span>
The political sociology of constitutions and the material constitution
This paper will discuss a political sociology of constitutions and constitutional politics. To this end, first, it will engage with the crucial question of the normative and sociological legitimacy of constitutional orders. Second, it will discuss the status of the political in sociological constitutionalism, and it will make a case for the recuperation of a...