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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809624103321

Titolo

After national democracy : rights, law and power in America and the new Europe / / edited by Lars Tragardh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Portland : , : Hart Publishing, , 2004

ISBN

1-4725-6298-4

1-280-80096-8

9786610800964

1-84731-208-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Onati international series in law and society

Disciplina

320.1

Soggetti

Constitutional history - United States

Democracy - European Union countries

Legitimacy of governments - European Union countries

Nation-state

European Union countries Politics and government

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A series published for the Onati Institute for the Sociology of Law"--T.pages

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Introduction / Lars Trägardh -- ; 2. Normative theory and the EU : legitimising the Euro-polity and its regime / Richard Bellamy, Dario Castiglione -- ; 3. The juridification of politics in the United States and Europe : historical roots, contemporary debates and future prospects / Lars Trägardh, Michael X. Delli Carpini -- ; 4. Rights and Regulations in (the) Europe(an Union) : after national democracy? / Daniel Wincott -- ; 5. Constitutional moments / Juliet Williams -- ; 6. Law and politics in a Madisonian republic : opportunities and challenges for judges and citizens in the new Europe / Lisa Hilbink -- ; 7. Democracy beyond nation and rule? Reflections on the democratic possibilities of proceduralism / Warren Breckman.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.