After National Democracy PB: Rights Law and Power in America and the New Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841133294)

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 Is the notion of a nationally-bound citizen in the process of being superceded by a cosmopolitan legal subject?

Author: Lars Trägårdh
ISBN-10: 1841133299
ISBN-13: 9781841133294
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2004
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.39d