Ideological Foundations and Some Features of the Austrian Constitution of 1934 Cover Image

Ideové základy a niektoré obsahové črty rakúskej ústavy z roku 1934
Ideological Foundations and Some Features of the Austrian Constitution of 1934

Author(s): Ján Drgo
Subject(s): Constitutional Law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Constitution; Preamble; Authoritarian; Corporative; Federal Diet; Advisory Bodies; Government.

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the analysis of the social, political but especially ideological origins of the 1934 austrian constitution based on criticism of parliamentary democracy and liberalism. Among the various ideological origins of the constitution, the article places special emphasis on the authoritarian principle manifesting itself in organization and the relationship between the legislative and executive powers of the constitution. It is precisely this relationship which is an indicator for that, if the austrian constitution was a kind of way between parliamentary democracy on the one hand and totalitarian systems on the other, or helped the emergence of a form of autocracy or dictatorship.

  • Issue Year: 26/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 41-59
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Slovak