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100	1		_aMARKOVITS, Inga _927512
245	1	0	_aTransitions to constitutional democracies : _bthe german democratic republic
260			_aThousand Oaks : _bSAGE, _cJanuary 2006
520	3		_aAll law reform must look for local precedents to build on. Does this claim also apply to formerly totalitarian states? Building on her research on East German legal history, the author asks whether there might be some generally applicable reasons explaining why in the German Democratic Republic the first tender shoots of a rule of law appeared before the collapse of socialism. She finds an inverse relationship between political and legal faith: as one declines, the other rises, and vice versa. The waning of utopian hopes tends to be compensated for by an increased interest in law and rights and by the growing professionalism of a disenchanted legal class. The author believes that not only is the "prerogative state" a constant threat to the "normative state," but that, vice versa, the practice of legality, even the legality of totalitarian state, can threaten and undermine the effectiveness of autocratic rule.
773	0	8	_tThe Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science _g603, p. 140-154 _dThousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2006 _xISSN 00027162 _w
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998			_a20060828 _b1152^b _cNatália
998			_a20100803 _b1056^b _cCarolina
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c19167 _d19167
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