| Democracy, Law and Governance Contributor(s): Lenoble, Jacques (Author), Maesschalck, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409403955 ISBN-13: 9781409403951 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Jurisprudence |
| Dewey: 340.11 |
| LCCN: 2010000631 |
| Series: Studies in Modern Law and Policy |
| Physical Information: 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Democracy, Law and Governance details the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for promoting public interest in their public policy. Firstly, the volume illustrates why a sound theoretical approach to the concept of law results in opening up the theory of law to the debate on governance in the social sciences. Secondly, it reconstructs the underpinnings of recent debate on governance, focusing on the pragmatist turn that has marked efforts to overcome the inadequacies of both the economic and the deliberative approaches. In fulfilling this second goal, it examines the advances yielded by the pragmatist turn as well as its limitations, and concludes by proposing a theoretical approach for dealing with them. This illuminating book applies recent research in both theory of law and theory of governance to deepen the analytic impact of the recent pragmatist revival. |