Digital humanism highlights the complex relationships between people, society, nature, and machines. It has been embraced by a growing community of individuals and groups who are setting directions that may change current paradigms. Here we focus on the initiatives generated by the Vienna Manifesto.
This article examines the conventional wisdom that an early legal break with the past is critical for democratic consolidation and finds it to be problematic. The postcommunist cases in central east Europe demonstrate that the liberal formula of free and fair elections followed by the ratification of a new constitution is not always desirable and may be sub-optimal when state sovereignty has not recently undergone redefinition. Since both semi-presidential and parliamentarian constitutions have framed stable democracies in the region, the research also indicates that the form a constitution ultimately takes is probably less important than the process that produces it.
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