From “Civil Society” to “Europe”

pp.：  3 – 3

Copyright

pp.：  4 – 6

Dedication

pp.：  7 – 8

Contents

pp.：  9 – 12

Acknowledgments

pp.：  13 – 14

Introduction: The Objectives of this Book

pp.：  15 – 36

Constitution and constitutionalism: a sociological approach

pp.：  19 – 23

Postcommunist dilemmas and sources of popular frustration

pp.：  24 – 28

Theoretical background of this book

pp.：  29 – 31

Empirical context

pp.：  32 – 36

Prologue: Between “Civil Society” and “Europe”: Round Tables in East Central Europe as Political and Legal Events

pp.：  37 – 64

Round tables as political events

pp.：  41 – 50

Round tables and the legality of the transformations

pp.：  51 – 56

Constitutional outcomes of round tables

pp.：  57 – 61

Consequences of the round tables in subsequent change

pp.：  62 – 64

I A Constitution as a Theory of Society

pp.：  65 – 94

Postcommunism critiqued

pp.：  67 – 70

Constitutional instrumentalism

pp.：  71 – 74

The “Empty Space” proposition as justification of constitutional instrumentalism

pp.：  75 – 78

Non-fictive, context-bound reflexive constitutionalism

pp.：  79 – 85

The constitution as a theory of society within society

pp.：  86 – 90

Constitutional instrumentalism versus the reflexive approach to the constitution

pp.：  91 – 94

II Stalinist Constitutionalism

pp.：  95 – 114

Typical features of Stalinist constitutionalism

pp.：  96 – 99

Theoretical foundations of the Stalinist political system

pp.：  100 – 104

Axiology of Stalinist constitutionalism

pp.：  105 – 107

System legitimization: the unarticulated social contract and negative constitutional consensus

pp.：  108 – 111

Stalinist constitutionalism and the need for a new constitutional semantics

pp.：  112 – 114

III In Search of a New Semantics: Discursive Resources of Postcommunist Constitutionalism

pp.：  115 – 146

Recent constitutional history: the context for democratic constitutionalism

pp.：  117 – 121

Recent constitutional history in its narrow sense

pp.：  122 – 127

The return of civil society, reintroduction of morality, and renaissance of history in the public sphere after the Gulag experience

pp.：  128 – 132

Interpretations of the rule of law

pp.：  133 – 136

The Eastern European syndrome: a brief outline of difficult legacies, old and new

pp.：  137 – 141

The semantic endowment of the new constitutions

pp.：  142 – 146

IV Settling Accounts with the Past and the Dilemmas of the Law-Governed State

pp.：  147 – 198

The constitutive potential of the difficult past: the right to truth, to remembrance, and to restitution of property rights as part of identity restoration

pp.：  150 – 155

Two legacies of stalinist totalitarianism

pp.：  156 – 160

Structural and mental legacies of the semantics used to legitimize state crimes

pp.：  161 – 166

Legacies of mass scale expropriations

pp.：  167 – 173

Knowledge as power: the paradoxes of democracy and model approaches

pp.：  174 – 183

Dilemmas of the law-governed state principle

pp.：  184 – 191

“Alienating justice” or a positive constitutional consensus?

pp.：  192 – 198

V Dividing the Cake: The Constitutionalization of Economic Order

pp.：  199 – 234

Privatization in the eyes of economists and sociologists

pp.：  204 – 209

Institutional optimism and sociological realism

pp.：  210 – 216

Anarchy, semi-legalized anarchy, and blurring the line between state-owned and private property

pp.：  217 – 225

The constitution versus mundane economic processes after the collapse of communism in East Central Europe

pp.：  226 – 230

Conclusions: written constitutions and emerging realities

pp.：  231 – 234

Summing Up: Thirteen Theses on Postcommunist Constitutionalism

pp.：  235 – 248

Appendix One: Election Particpation in Eastern Europe

pp.：  249 – 249

Appendix Two: Satisfaction with Democracy in Eastern Europe

pp.：  250 – 250

Appendix Three: Satisfaction with the Actually Realized Model of Democracy in Particular Countries

pp.：  251 – 251

Appendix Four: Comparison of Evaluations of Democracy and Market Economy in Action in Particular Countries

pp.：  252 – 252

Bibliography

pp.：  253 – 264

Index

pp.：  265 – 268