The beheading of the legislator: the european crisis ”“ paradoxes of constitutionalizing democratic capitalism

Authors

  • Hauke Brunkhorst, Prof. Dr. University of Flensburg, Germany

Keywords:

Kantian mindset, managerial mindset, constitutional evolution, normative constraints, existing concept, crisis, ordoliberalism

Abstract

The European Union today finds itself in the midst of its greatest crisis. The crisis is due not only to one of the greatest breakdowns in the history of the global economy, but also to the fascinating internal evolution of the European constitution since its beginning, shortly after World War II. Parallel to the growth of constitutional law, latent legitimation problems began to arise and grow cumulatively. However, once the big global banks, corporations and hedge-funds began a concerted attack on the European periphery, the long lasting neoliberal turn from democratic capitalism to capitalist democracy has reached whole Europe, and the legitimation crisis becomes manifest.

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Translated from the original text in English by Pablo Holmes, Associate Professor of the Institute of Political Science of the University of Brasilia (UnB).

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Author Biography

Hauke Brunkhorst, Prof. Dr., University of Flensburg, Germany

Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy, University of Flensburg, Germany. (https://www.uni-flensburg.de/en/soziologie/wer-wir-sind/das-team/senior-professor/hauke-brunkorst/#unfold-c40538)

Capa da Revista Direito.UnB Volume 1, Número 1

Published

2019-05-10

How to Cite

BRUNKHORST, Hauke. The beheading of the legislator: the european crisis ”“ paradoxes of constitutionalizing democratic capitalism. Direito.UnB - Law Journal of the University of Brasília, [S. l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 93–118, 2019. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistadedireitounb/article/view/24624. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.