Open Political Science | Volume 4: Issue 1 Political alternatives for constitutional democracy: between utopia, pandemic and dystopia Andraž Teršek 1 1 Faculty of Education & Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska and European Faculty of Law, New University, Ljubljana, Slovenia DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/openps-2021-0006 | Published online: 22 Nov 2020 Available…

In this short essay, I will do three things. Firstly, I will repeat the constitutional interpretation of the central and therefore very important constitutional concept, which has already been repeated several times. I will do this for two reasons. First, because a correct understanding of this concept is directly related…

Introduction It is worth repeating this at the beginning. Social-liberal constitutional democracy is based on fundamental principles and rules, which are moral and normative in nature and therefore represent a value. We can speak of a social-liberal constitutional democracy as a value, especially if we understand the CONSTITUTION to be…

Trigger: the reading of some Internet "verbiage." When politicians and passionate, thoughtless daily-political "fans" mention the word "trust" in daily politics, this is - in view of the characteristics of modern daily (party) politics - expected and understandable. But when the word "trust" is used in relation to daily (party)…

Assoc. prof. dr. Andraž Teršek THE STATE OF AFFAIRS Everything I do, or not do, regarding the law and communicating the law in public, is founded with the best possible intentions. In undisputed bona fide manner. Sometimes my fellow professors and legal scholars/theoreticians and me, who belong to the generation…

Foundational Model of Constitutional Democracy ArticlesJune 18, 2020 Introduction Models of constitutional democracy do matter! By “models” I especially refer to the distinction between monistic, dualistic and foundational models of constitutional democracy (as described in Bruce Ackerman’s book: We the People 1. Foundations.  1992). Different models of constitutional democracy established…

By Andraž Teršek Pain as freedom of choice. Right to the event. To transcendence. Event as freedom of self-realization. On the concert (or better, on a philosophical-artistic performance, non-institutionalized artistic-musical Mass, musical-dramaturgical transcendence and finally the genuine ethics of pure (Aristotelian) politics as physical, thinking and feeling participation in the…