After national democracy
Subtitle: rights, law and power in America and the new Europe
By: edited by Lars Trägårdh.
Contributors: Trägårdh, Lars.; Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
Series: Oñati international series in law and society
Publisher: Hart
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: European Union; National state; Legitimacy of governments -- European Union countries; Democracy -- European Union countries; Constitutional history -- United States; European Union countries -- Politics and government; European Union countries -- Politics and government; United States -- Politics and government
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 Is the notion of a nationally-bound citizen in the process of being superceded by a cosmopolitan legal subject?"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A series published for the Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law"--T.p.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / -- Lars Trägårdh -- 2.; title: Normative theory and the EU : legitimising the Euro-polity and its regime -- Richard Bellamy, Dario Castiglione -- 3.; title: The juridification of politics in the United States and Europe : historical roots, contemporary debates and future prospects -- Lars Trägårdh, Michael X. Delli Carpini -- 4.; title: Rights and Regulations in (the) Europe(an Union) : after national democracy? -- Daniel Wincott -- 5.; title: Constitutional moments -- Juliet Williams -- 6.; title: Law and politics in a Madisonian republic : opportunities and challenges for judges and citizens in the new Europe -- Lisa Hilbink -- 7.; title: Democracy beyond nation and rule? Reflections on the democratic possibilities of proceduralism -- Warren Breckman.