{"id":6409,"date":"2014-11-14T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2014-11-14T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T01:24:07","slug":"rule-of-law-and-constitutionalism-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6409","title":{"rendered":"Rule of law and constitutionalism in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Lane Scheppele is a professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University. She is also an expert on\u00a0constitutional law in Hungary. Her writings frequently appeared in publications such as The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, Dr. Scheppele gave a video interview to an English-language Hungarian newspaper, the Budapest Beacon. In the interview, she explains how, in her opinion, Hungary can no longer be considered a constitutional democracy: how the system of checks and balances has been gutted and a constitution more resembling the country&#8217;s 1949 Stalinist constitution than the supposedly &#8220;communist&#8221; 1989 constitution it was intended to replace, was enacted unilaterally by a ruling party enjoying a two-thirds parliamentary supermajority.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/111590261\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 7pt; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/111590261\">Princeton&#8217;s Kim Lane Scheppele on democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law in Hungary<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user31956002\">Budapest Beacon<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr. Scheppele is not some liberal hack. She is an internationally renowned scholar. Her opinions are not arbitrary. Unfortunately, I do not expect\u00a0to see meaningful change to happen anytime soon in the country of my birth, and I don&#8217;t think anything Dr. Scheppele says can alter this sad fact.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6409' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Lane Scheppele is a professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University. She is also an expert on\u00a0constitutional law in Hungary. Her writings frequently appeared in publications such as The New York Times. A few days ago, Dr. Scheppele gave a video interview to an English-language Hungarian newspaper, the Budapest Beacon. In the <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6409' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,42,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","category-legal","category-politics","category-21-id","category-42-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}