The problem of the nomination system in the works of our public law authors between the two wars

Abstract

In dealing with our topic, we have started by grouping chronologically around the parliamentary elections of the Horthy era the main works of the public law authors of the period, who we consider to be the most important and which related to the subject of our study, in some cases also revised editions of the same work. In this way, we show how the criticism of the nomination system took shape in the public law literature between the two wars under the impact of the elections. However, we could not be completely consistent in our method, since after the 1935 elections it was no longer the existing  system but the criticisms of the new electoral law proposal
that were more relevant. Furthermore, because the 1939 election was the last general parliamentary election of the period, it seemed appropriate to summarise the findings regarding the nomination system of the 1938 Electoral Act only in a looser context with this election. Above all, however, we thought it important to collect the “dogmatic” positions on the nature of the nomination from the works of contemporary authors – regardless of the date of their publication – in a separate chapter. The related legal provisions are only described in this paper where necessary, as we have already done so in a previous article of our series.