Unorthodoxy in legislation: The Hungarian experience

Dániel Deák ()
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Dániel Deák: Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Business Law, Budapest, Hungary

Society and Economy, 2014, vol. 36, issue 2, 151-184

Abstract: This paper deals with legal unorthodoxy. The main idea is to study the so-called unorthodox taxes Hungary has adopted in recent years. The study of unorthodox taxes will be preceded by a more general discussion of how law is made under unorthodoxy, and what are the special features of unorthodox legal policy. Unorthodoxy challenges equality before the law and is critical towards mass democracies. It also raises doubts on the operability of the rule of law, relying on personal skills, or loyalty, rather than on impersonal mechanisms arising from checks and balances as developed by the division of political power. Besides, for lack of legal suppositions, legislation suffers from casuistry and regulatory capture.

Keywords: unorthodox economic and legal policies; populism; special industry levies; quality of legislation; rule of law; legal certainty; substantive and procedural justice; review of constitutional provisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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