Towards a Global Polity
Subtitle: Future Trends and Prospects
Contributors: Higgott, Richard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780203219836
Subjects: Globalization
Description: The role of law, networks and civil society are examined and key theoretical and meta-theoretical questions on how to analyse and theorise the global polity, what drives it forward, and whether it can be democratised are discussed.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: beyond system and society towards a global polity?; Theorising the global polity; Global polity research: characteristics and challenges; The global polity and changes in statehood; Law in the global polity; Societal denationalization and positive governance; Non-state actors in the global polity; Discursive globalization: transnational discourse communities and New Public Management.