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Acting as their key means of regulation, the law serves those in politics as both a point of reference and justification of their actions. At the same time, it is also one of the tools with which they like to achieve their aims. The law thus has two sides to it: it is constitutive for those in political circles and guides their actions, yet is also shaped and changed by those individuals. This makes answering the question of what role the law plays in politics extremely difficult. By documenting the results of the first two conferences convened by the research group entitled "Politik und Recht", this anthology makes a contribution to assessing the law's political dimension. The studies presented at these conferences were based on the key concepts of legislation and interpreting the law, and focused on the following questions: What kind of scope does the law create for decision-making among interpreters? In what institutional context do those involved in politics act when putting the law into practice? And how is the daily struggle between politics and the law structured?With contributions by:Andreas Anter, Andreas Corcaci, Sebastian Dregger, Benjamin Engst, Annette Förster, Verena Frick, Thomas Gawron, Rolf Gröschner, Sebastian Huhnholz, Thorsten Hüller, Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer, Jörn Ketelhut, Uwe Kranenpohl, Oliver W. Lembcke, Ilya Levin, Roland Lhotta, Alexander Neupert-Doppler, Felix Petersen, Hartmut Rensen, Helmuth Schulze-Fielitz, Jared Sonnicksen, Manon Westphal, Sebastian Wolf, Michael Wrase, Dirk Zeitz

This collection is the most comprehensive account of the Fundamental Law and its underlying principles. The objective is to analyze this constitutional transition from the perspectives of comparative constitutional law, legal theory and political philosophy. The authors outline and analyze how the current constitutional changes are altering the basic structure of the Hungarian State. The key concepts of the theoretical inquiry are sociological and normative legitimacy, majoritarian and partnership approach to democracy, procedural and substantive elements of constitutionalism. Changes are also examined in the field of human rights, focusing on the principles of equality, dignity, and civil liberties

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: citizenship as a rhetorical practice -- Section I: Tracing rhetorical citizenship as concept and practice -- 1 Deliberative Democracy: Mapping Out the Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory -- 2 The Making of Truth in Debate: The Case of (and a Case for) the Early Sophists -- 3 The Search for "Real" Democracy: Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation in France and the United States, 1870–1940 -- Section II: Public deliberation as rhetorical practice -- Introduction -- Part 1 Considering Norms of Communicative Behavior -- 4 The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public Dialogue -- 5 Dialectical Citizenship? Some Thoughts on the Role of Pragmatics in the Analysis of Public Debate -- 6 Provocative Style: The Gaarder Debate Example -- 7 Virtual Deliberations: Talking Politics Online in Hungary -- Part 2 Critiques of "Elite" Discourse -- 8 Dis-playing Democracy: The Rhetoric of Duplicity -- 9 Rhetoric of War, Rhetoric of Gender -- 10 Speaking of Terror: Norms of Rhetorical Citizenship in Danish Public Discourse -- 11 "This May Be the Law, but Should It Be?": Tony Blair's Rhetoric of Exception -- Part 3 Rhetorical Citizenship Across Communicative Settings -- 12 I Agree, but . . . : Finding Alternatives to Controversial Projects Through Public Deliberation -- 13 Deliberation as Behavior in Public -- 14 Homing in on the Arguments: The Rhetorical Construction of Subject Positions in Debates on the Danish Real Estate Market -- 15 Danish Revue: Satire as Rhetorical Citizenship -- Section III: Toward better deliberative practices -- 16 Presidential Primary Debate as a Genre of Journalistic Discourse: How Can We Put Debate into the Debates? -- 17 A Tool for Rhetorical Citizenship: Generalizing the Status System -- 18 Interpretive Debates Revisited -- About the Contributors -- Index