ISBN:
9780231546959
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (388 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Cooper, Frederick Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Cultural pluralism-Political aspects-Case studies
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Multiculturalism-Political aspects-Case studies
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In this interdisciplinary volume, a group of prominent international scholars considers alternative political formations to the nation-state, discussing their ability to preserve and expand the achievements of democratic constitutionalism in the twenty-first century and their capacity to deal with deep societal differences
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism, by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen -- I. After Empire: Historical Alternatives -- 1. Federation, Confederation, Territorial State: Debating a Post-imperial Future in French West Africa, 1945-1960, by Fred Cooper -- 2. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy, by Gary Wilder -- 3. From the American System to Anglo-Saxon Union: Scientific Racism and Supra-Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century North America, by Joshua Simon -- 4. Constitutions and Forms of Pluralism in the Time of Conquest: The French Debates Over the Colonization of Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s, by Emmanuelle Saada -- II. New Federal Formations and/or Subsidiarity -- 5. The Constitutional Identity of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Status Groups or Federal Actors?, by Patrick Macklem -- 6. Federacy and the Kurds: Might This New Political Form Help Mitigate Hobbesian Conflicts in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria?, by Alfred Stepan and Jeff Miley -- 7. Europe-What's Left: Towards a Progressive Pluralist Program for EU Reform, by Robert Howse -- 8. Subsidiarity and the Challenge to the Sovereign State, by Nadia Urbinati -- III. Status Group Legal Pluralism -- 9. Indian Secularism and Its Challenges, by Christophe Jaffrelot -- 10. Tainted Liberalism: Israel's Millets, by Michael Karayanni -- 11. Jurisdictional Competition and Internal Reform in Muslim Family Law in Israel and Greece, by Yuksel Sezgin -- IV. The Challenge of Corporate Power -- 12. Corporate Legal Particularism, by Katharina Pistor -- 13. Tax Competition and the Unbundling of Sovereignty, by Tsilly Dagan -- 14. The Politics of Horizontal Inequality: Indigenous Opposition to Wind Energy Development in Mexico, by Courtney Jung -- Conclusion: Territorial Pluralism and Language Communities, by Astrid von Busekist
Abstract:
List of Contributors -- Index
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