A model of real existing party democracy in twentieth century Europe:

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  • 20世紀ヨーロッパにおける政党デモクラシーの現実モデル
  • 20世紀ヨーロッパにおける政党デモクラシーの現実モデル : H.ケルゼンの民主政論を手がかりに
  • 20セイキ ヨーロッパ ニ オケル セイトウ デモクラシー ノ ゲンジツ モデル : H.ケルゼン ノ ミンシュ セイロン オ テガカリ ニ
  • Insights drawn from the work of Hans Kelsen
  • ―H. ケルゼンの民主政論を手がかりに―

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<p>This article is an attempt to re-conceptualize the theoretical core of parliamentary democracy in twentieth century Europe. The article builds on the work of Hans Kelsen and reconstructs the logic of contemporary democracies. In his view, a sort of “integration” by political parties and their compromise in the shadow of majority decision is crucial to the working of parliamentary democracy. In this theoretical foundation of party democracy, “competition” is even redundant. It also suggests that a rather monist view of democratic institutions, which puts the parliament in the center, had underlain European party democracies in the twentieth century, in contrast to the prevailing “rule of law” views teressing the separation of the executive and the legislature. As an implication, this article highlights the importance of social preconditions which are not amenable to constitutional engineering, which elucidates the limits of institutionalist view of politics.</p>

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