Cardozo Law Review
Abstract
In recent years, especially after the breakdown of the Soviet bloc, we have witnessed numerous attempts to establish viable democratic structures in states formerly in the tight grip of dictatorially ruling elites, be it in the countries of the former Communist bloc, at the African Cape, or in Latin America. The questions that concern people in these regions above all are how their systems can be made strong enough to survive the economic crises that go along with establishing democratic frameworks and how the states can ensure the necessary coherence to survive on the background of a lingering challenge by persistently strong autocratic tendencies. As these emerging democracies are fighting for their survival, the established liberal Western democracies face another problem. Pluralism has led to a degree of particularism that could be seen as disruptive for the state structure. Movements for ethnic and cultural self-determination do not only threaten the coherence of the emerging democracies in the former Soviet Union or hinder the development of peaceful structures in the former Yugoslavia, but are also a cause of disturbance in countries like Canada, France (Corsica), and Italy, not to mention places like Rwanda or Sri Lanka.
Keywords
Democracy, Political Systems and Governments, Foreign Affairs, Constitutional Law, Adoption, Parents and Children, Biography, Censorship, Constitutional Courts, Courts, Jurisprudence
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Courts | Jurisprudence | Law
Recommended Citation
Manfred H. Wiegandt,
The Alleged Unaccountability of the Academic: A Biographical Sketch of Carl Schmitt,
16
Cardozo L. Rev.
1569
(1995).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol16/iss5/6
