Limiting Government ― An Introduction to Constitutionalism

Central and Eastern Europe's foremost constitutional theorist explores the history and theory of constitutionalism from the standpoint of a realist and a skeptic. He argues that the separation of powers refers not to the establishment of watertight compartments, but to partial agency, an approach which leads constitutional theory to focus on political rather than legal limits on the abuse of power, and on elections and opposition parties rather than on courts. This English edition retains many of the original Hungarian and East European examples. First published in Hungarian as Az ÷nkorlstoz= hatalom in 1995 by K<:ozgazdassgi Ts Jogi K÷nyvkiad=, MTA -llam-Ts Jogtudomsnyi IntTzet, Budapest. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)