Title: From Trauma to Apathy: On the Hegemony of European Authoritarian Liberalism
Abstract: Michael Wilkinson's Authoritarian Liberalism puts forward a challenging and controversial claim: the history of European integration and the trajectory of the constitutional orders of the founding Member States have always been driven by authoritarian liberalism. This comment focuses on a certain slack, in Wilkinson's analysis, between the material constitution of European States and authoritarian liberalism as a form of government. More specifically, the comment highlights the need of retrieving a more conflictual relation between, on one hand, the material constitution of the Welfare State and its industrial involvement, and on the other hand, the constitutional forms adopted by authoritarian liberalism.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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