In:
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, SAGE Publications, Vol. 22, No. 4 ( 2008-11), p. 784-801
Abstract:
This article is a case study of the recent impeachment of President Paksas of Lithuania, exploring the heuristic value of Carl Schmitt's extremalist methodology for research on the institutional dimension of democratic consolidation. This methodology considers the performance of the democratic regime under extreme or exceptional conditions as the test of its consolidation. As presidential and semipresidential regimes are predisposed to evolve into authoritarian regimes and delegative democracies, effective use of the impeachment procedure can be considered to be the positive Schmittean test of the state of democratic consolidation for a political system involved in democratic transition.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0888-3254
,
1533-8371
DOI:
10.1177/0888325408316533
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2008
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2043614-2
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1062740-6
SSG:
7,41
SSG:
3,6
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