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

Lars Trägårdh (Curatore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

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 Is the notion of a nationally-bound citizen in the process of being superceded by a cosmopolitan legal subject?

• Curatore: Lars Trägårdh
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Collana: Oñati International Series in Law and Society
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 196 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• EAN: 9781841133294

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