Covenant and Civil Society
Subtitle: Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy
By: Daniel Elazar
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781351291446
Subjects: Civil society; History; Covenants; Democracy; Société civile; Histoire; Political aspects
Description: ""--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, 1 Covenant; title: From Commonwealth to Civil Society; title: chapter 1 Prologue; title: Toward a Civil Constitutionalism; title: chapter 2 Covenant and the New Political Science; title: chapter 3 Britain; title: From Whiggism to Liberalism; title: chapter 4 From Tocqueville to Personalism; title: Covenant and its Displacement in Post-Revolutionary European Thought; title: chapter 5 Four Twentieth-Century Federalist Thinkers; title: part, 2 Covenant and the Age of State-Building; title: chapter 6 Europe; title: Modern Nationalism and the Covenant Tradition; title: chapter 7 The Covenant Motif in Modern Revolutions; title: chapter 8 Revolutions; title: Cooperative, Collectivism and Coercive; title: chapter 9 Swiss Exceptionalism; title: Communal and Liberal Democracy; title: part, 3 Covenant and Constitutionalism; title: chapter 10 Constitutionalism; title: The Modern Expression of the Covenantal Tradition; title: chapter 11 The Three Dimensions of the Constitution; title: chapter 12 The Covenant Tradition and Rights; title: part, 4 Present and Future; title: chapter 13 The Decline and Possible Revival of Covenant in Our Times; title: chapter 14 Toward a World Covenantal Network; title: chapter 15 Covenant, Republicanism, and Democracy; title: chapter 16 Where Does This Bring Us?; title: chapter Excursus 1 The Language of Covenant; title: chapter Excursus 2 The Biblical Covenant as the Foundation of Justice, Obligations, and Rights.