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Alternative title:

The hidden political — meritocratic justification and its role in lawmaking

Creator:

Srokosz, Jacek

ORCID:

0000-0002-7587-6483

Subject and Keywords:

the political   meritocratic justification   meritocracy   lawmaking   regulatory agencies   judicial review

Tags:

public and procedural law

Abstract:

The article aims at analyzing meritocratic justification in lawmaking against the political understood in Chantal Mouffe’s terms as a certain indelible antagonism underlying the functioning of every society. When referred to lawmaking, meritocracy is based on the assumption that it is possible to eliminate the political from the lawmaking process by replacing it with the expert factor. Based on the example of judicial lawmaking and the lawmaking of independent regulatory agencies in the USA, the author points out that the meritocratic justification: 1) serves to legitimize adopted legal solutions, 2) does not eliminate the political but only masks it by referring to the criteria of objectivity and expertise.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Contributor:

Jabłoński, Mariusz Red.   Bator, Andrzej Red.   Łakomy, Jakub Red.

Date issued:

2020

Date copyrighted:

2020

Identifier:

ISSN 0137-1134  
ISSN 0239-6661

DOI:

10.19195/0137-1134.122.6

Source:

PAd P 101660 II

Language:

eng   pol

Relation:

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, ISSN 0239-6661, No 3994. Przegląd Prawa i Administracji 2020, 122, s. 87-102

Is version of:

Czasopisma Naukowe w Sieci (CNS)

Rights holder:

Copyright by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Sp. z o.o.

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