After national democracy : rights, law and power in America and the new Europe / edited by Lars Trägårdh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trägårdh, Lars, editor.

Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

Series:

Oñati international series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Nation-state.

Legitimacy of governments--European Union countries.

Legitimacy of governments.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries.

Democracy--European Union countries.

Democracy.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Nation-state--Congresses.

Democracy--Developing countries--Congresses.

United States--Politics and government--Congresses.

nations.

Politics and government.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 169 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland : Hart, 2004.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

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

Contents:

1. Introduction / Lars Trägårdh

2. Normative theory and the EU : legitimising the Euro-polity and its regime / Richard Bellamy, Dario Castiglione

3. The juridification of politics in the United States and Europe : historical roots, contemporary debates and future prospects / Lars Trägårdh, Michael X. Delli Carpini

4. Rights and Regulations in (the) Europe(an Union) : after national democracy? / Daniel Wincott

5. Constitutional moments / Juliet Williams

6. Law and politics in a Madisonian republic : opportunities and challenges for judges and citizens in the new Europe / Lisa Hilbink

7. Democracy beyond nation and rule? Reflections on the democratic possibilities of proceduralism / Warren Breckman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

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Print version: After national democracy.

ISBN:

9781847312082

184731208X

9781472562982

1472562984

9781280800962

1280800968

9786610800964

6610800960

OCLC:

607779156

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