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The new institutionalism is not a descendent of the classical legal doctrine of the institutions; nor is it a revised version of Maurice Hauriou’s or Carl Schmitt’s theories. It has evolved independently from those theories and it expresses a largely different conception of social norms, of the law and of the institutions.
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D.N. MacCormick O. Weinberger An Institutional Theory of Law: New Approaches to Legal Positivism, Dordrecht et al. 1986; German version: Grundlagen des Institutionaliustischen Rechtspositivismus, Berlin 1985; O. Weinberger, Recht, Institution und Rechtspolitik. Grundprobleme der Rechtstheorie und Sozialphilosophie, Stuttgart 1987; the same, Norm und Institution. Eine Einführung in die Theorie des Rechts, Wien 1988
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See O. Weinberger, Norm und Institution. Eine Einführung in die Theorie des Rechts, Wien 1988, p. 91 ff.; the same, Rechtslogik, Berlin 19892, p. 64, p.91
See A. Procházka, Normative Theorie und Rechtserzeugung, in: V. Kubeš O. Weinberger (eds.), Die Brünner rechtstheoretische Schule (Normative Theorie), Wien 1980, pp. 304–323
Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law (second edition) provides arguably the most striking expression of the purely normative conception of legal dogmatics. Kelsen describes the sentence expressing the ought rule as conditio per quam,- or the true reason for the validity of the normative conclusion, as one might say — while he regards the sentence stating the facts merely as conditio sine qua non of the conclusion. (pp. 191 f.) In view of the fact that both premisses are necessary for attaining a conclusion such a distinction is logically untenable
MacCormick and O. Weinberger, op. cit., pp. 49–76 (German version, pp. 76–107)
See O. Weinberger, Institutionentheorie und Institutionalistischer Rechtspositivismus, in: the same and W. Krawietz (eds.), Helmuth Schelsky als Soziologe und politischer Denker, Stuttgart 1985, p. 150 ff
As in H. Kelsen, Hauptprobleme der Staatsrechtslehre, entwickelt aus der Lehre vom Rechtssatze, Tübingen 1911, p. 202. — Kelsen never abandoned that stance
This is the view taken by Kelsen in the late development of his theory. See H. Kelsen, All gemeine Theorie der Normen, ed. by K. Ringhofer and R. Walter, Wien 1979; O. Weinberger, Normentheorie als Grundlage der Jurisprudenz und Ethik. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Hans Kelsens Theorie der Normen, Berlin 1981
See H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law, Oxford 19726, Chap. V and p. 245
M. Weber, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, Tübingen 19725, p. 28
For the concept of the scope for action see O. Weinberger, Freedom, Range for Action, and the Ontology of Norms, in: Synthese, vol. 65 (1985), pp. 307–324
See B. Barnes, The Nature of Power, Oxford 1988
See for example P. Graf Kielmannsegg (ed.), Legitimitätsprobleme politischer Systeme, Ctoladen 1976
See O. Weinberger, Angst vor dem menschlichen Wahn, in: A. Grabncr-Haider O. Weinberger K. Weinke (eds.), Fanatismus und Massenwahn, Graz/Wien 1987, pp. 4–34
See my paper “Abstimmungslogik und Demokratie” [in: B. Sutter et al. (eds.), Reformen des Rechts, Graz 1979, pp. 605–623] where I have attempted to show that collective decisionmaking processes are possible only on the basis of normative rules. In a modern state the constitution has the task of providing a normative basis for the definition of the functions fulfilled by the organs of the state as well as the competences and the decision-making processes
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Weinberger, O. (1991). Constitutional Theory in the Light of the New Institutionalism. In: Law, Institution and Legal Politics. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3458-3_5
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