After National Democracy - Rights, Law and Power in America and the New Europe

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 Is the notion of a nationally-bound citizen in the process of being superceded by a cosmopolitan legal subject?>

Product details

• Authors: Lars rdh, Trag229, Lars Tragardh
• Assisted by: Lars Tragardh (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2004
• EAN: 9781841133287
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-328-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Onati International Series in; Onati International Series in Law and Society; Onati International Series in
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education