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Weber, Habermas, and transformations of the European state : constitutional, social, and supranational democracy / John P. McCormick.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCormick, John P., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European Union.
- Democracy--European Union countries.
- Democracy.
- European Union countries.
- Constitutional history--European Union countries.
- Constitutional history.
- Social integration--European Union countries.
- Social integration.
- Weber, Max, 1864-1920.
- Weber, Max.
- Habermas, Jürgen.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 301 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction: theorizing modern transformations of law and democracy
- Critical theory and structural transformations
- Critical theory and the supranational constellation
- Law, democracy and state transformation today
- The historical logic(s) of Habermas's critique of Weber's "sociology of law"
- The fragility of legal-rational legitimacy
- Moral underpinnings of formal law
- The possibility of rationally coherent Sozialstaat law
- Secularization, commodification and history
- Excursus: the transformation of Habermas's theory of history
- Philosophy of history and the sociology of law
- Conclusion
- The puzzle of law, democracy and historical change in Weber's "sociology of law"
- The public/private law distinction and "modern" law
- History as confirmation
- Contestation of legal categories
- Legal history as contrast
- Continuity with the Present
- Legal limits on power: separation and application
- Organizations, special law and the law of the land
- Weber, law and social change
- Formal and substantive rationalization of law
- Formal v. substantive law and the Sozialstaat
- Habermas's deliberatively legal Sozialstaat: democracy, adjudication and reflexive law
- Habermas on language and law, lifeworld and system
- Beyond formalist and vitalist notions of constitutional democracy
- Rational and democratically accessible adjudication
- Selecting 19th or 20th century paradigms of law
- Conceptual paradigms and historical configurations of law
- Habermas on the European union: normative aspirations, empirical questions and historical assumptions
- Global problems to be solved by EU democracy
- The history of the state as guide to the present
- The form and content of EU democracy
- Limits of Habermas's theory of EU democracy
- The structural transformation to the supranational Sektoralstaat and prospects for democracy in the EU
- Legal integration and the supranationalist model
- State-centrism
- EU law constrained
- The European Sektoralstaat model
- (a) Legally facilitated race to the bottom or march to the top?
- (b) Comitology
- -open, public and equitable deliberation?
- (c) Multiple policy Europes
- Democracy, the EU Sektoralstaat and further questions
- Conclusion: Habermas's philosophy of history and the future of Europe
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521811406
- 9780521811408
- OCLC:
- 70668750
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