After National Democracy PB: Rights Law and Power in America and the New Europe Contributor(s): Trägårdh, Lars (Editor), Nelken, David (Editor), Hunter, Rosemary (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1841133299 ISBN-13: 9781841133294 Publisher: Hart Publishing OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2004 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Law | Jurisprudence |
Dewey: 320.1 |
LCCN: 2004303724 |
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.59 lbs) 196 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The "imagined community" of the nation, which served as the affective basis for the post-French Revolution social contract, as well as its institutional counter-part, the welfare state, are currently under great stress as states lose control over what once was referred to as the "national economy" In this book a number of authors - historians, legal scholars, political theorists - consider the fate of national democracy in the age of globalization. In particular, the authors ask whether the order of European nation-states, with its emphasis on substantive democracy, is now, in the guise of the European Union, giving way to a more loosely constructed, often federalized system of procedural republics (partly constructed in the image of the United States). Is national parliamentary democracy being replaced by a politico-legal culture, where citizen action increasingly takes place in a transnational legal domain at the expense of traditional (and national) party politics? Is the notion of a nationally-bound citizen in the process of being superceded by a cosmopolitan legal subject? |