The Emergency Governance as a Challenge for Liberal Democracies

Abstract

The conference contribution presents a constitutional-theoretical perspective on addressing the following questions: 1) Is the concept of emergency governance defensible? 2) Must emergency governance inherently be undemocratic? 3) Is it more advantageous for liberal democracies to lack detailed legal regulations on emergency governance?

Keywords

• constitutional law
• constitutional theory
• theory of emergency governance
• emergency governance
• states of emergency
• liberal democracy