Central European Papers, 2020 (roč. 8), číslo 1

EDITORIAL

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Central European Papers 2020, 8(1)  

Slovak National Council and (Un)Implemented Principles of Parliamentarism between 1944 and 1992

prof. JUDr. PhDr. Tomáš GÁBRIŠ, PhD., LLM, MA

Central European Papers 2020, 8(1):9-25 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2020.002  

The Slovak National Council (SNC) was the body, which assumed to concentrate supreme state powers in its regulation no. 1/1944, during an anti-Nazi uprising taking place in the end of the Second World War in the territory of Slovakia. This body had, however, not been directly elected until the year 1954. And even when it was to be finally elected in direct elections, these were strongly marked by a completely new approach of Communist Party and its ideology towards the role and importance of elections – limited only to prove the generally accepted leadership of the Party. As far as the SNC’s activity is concerned, it kept decreasing in...

Changes in the Constitutional Review of Legislation in Hungary

István STUMPF CsC, Csaba ERDŐS PhD

Central European Papers 2020, 8(1):27-46 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2020.003  

The article presents the changes that had taken place in the relationship between the Parliament and the Constitutional Court through focusing on the development of the Constitutional Court’s competences, with particular attention to the review of constitutional amendments and constitutional control over the Parliament’s rules of procedure. We place special emphasis on summarizing those voices that had, from the very beginning, harshly criticized the fundamental rights activism of the Constitutional Court and laid the foundations for the political constitutionalism that has pervaded public life since the 2010 elections, as well as the ’public...

A Victim Among Martyrs? Czech Victimhood Nationalism during the First World War

Mgr. Maeva Carla CHARGROS

Central European Papers 2020, 8(1):47-61 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2020.001  

Victimhood nationalism has gained considerable attention in the past decade within nationalism studies. This theoretical article shows how recent research in the fields of international relations and victimology can help improve our understanding of Czech (Czechoslovak) nationalism. To do so, this study is using a selection of newspaper articles and unpublished archival materials from the period of the First World War, covering propaganda activities of Czechs (Masaryk, Beneš) and their allies or acquaintances in France, as well as those of Czech-Americans in the United States of America. By drawing on the definitions of victimhood nationalism within...

Ivan HALÁSZ – Josef VOZÁR; Augustín Ráth. Prvý slovenský rektor Univerzity Komenského [Augustín Ráth. First Slovak Rector of Comenius University]

prof. Dr. Ivan Halász, PhD.

Central European Papers 2020, 8(1):65-67  

Bratislava: VEDA 2018, 237 pages. ISBN 978-80-224-1711-2

Ivan HALÁSZ - Gábor SCHWEITZER; „Egy tisztességes jogtanár”. Molnár Kálmán pályaképe [“The honest professor of law”. Portrait of Kálmán Molnár]

prof. Dr. Ivan Halász, PhD.

Central European Papers 2020, 8(1):69-71  

Budapest: MTA TK JTI, 2018, 232 pages. ISBN 978-963-7311-84-0