ISBN:
9780415124188
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (277 p)
Series Statement:
What is Europe?
Parallel Title:
Print version European Democratic Culture
DDC:
306.2/094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The authors argue that European social life and scientific learning are indispensable components in the growth of the shared values that democracy pursues. They analyse the democratic institutions of Europe in relation to aspects of its culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; General preface to 'What is Europe?'; Introduction to Book 3; Part I The growth of democracy; Essay 1 Scientific revolutions and ideas of democracy; Introduction; The emergence of democracy; An anthropological approach to science and politics; The birth of political thought; The democratic ideal and the conditions of its emergence; The Copernican Revolution: the conditions for the emergence of modern democratic thought; The medieval world; A new methodological discipline; A new attitude of mind; New thinking in law and politics
Description / Table of Contents:
The human community and natural rightThe critique of authority; Some questionable presuppositions of the new thinking; The problem of sovereignty; The authority of Law and natural right; A new social and political philosophy; A different conception of society; A psychology of social ties; Modern political rationality; The concept of public opinion; Afterword: Crisis and the conditions for democracy; References; Essay 2 The conditions for the development of democracy; Introduction; The rationalization of social conflicts; Formative experiences; The British parliamentary system
Description / Table of Contents:
Consociational democracy7The republican compromise; Legacies of intolerance; German authoritarianism; Southern European clientelism; The virtuous logic of republican institutions; Changes in political behaviour; The apprenticeship of citizens; The extension of political activity; The circulation of élites; The regulation of social conflicts; Ensuring peaceful outcome to social conflicts; The neutralization of political extremism; Conclusion; References; Part II Individual freedom and the rule of Law; Introduction to Part II; Essay 3 Democracy and individual freedom; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
The meanings of democracyExpressive democracy; Citizen democracy; Democracy as a form of government; Democracy as a form of order or organization; Democracy as a way of legitimizing government; Nationalism and democracy; Criticisms of democracy; Conservative and liberal criticisms; Socio-economic criticisms; Marxism; Feminism; Rational choice criticisms; Democracy and freedom; Democracy in the European Community; The restatement of democracy?; References; Essay 4 The state under the rule of Law; The idea of the state under the rule of Law; Limits to the authority of the state
Description / Table of Contents:
The essential elements in the doctrine of the stateThe people; Territory; The political meaning of sovereignty; The juridical meaning of sovereignty: the legal order in a state under the rule of Law; The rights of man tradition; The rule of Law and the continental tradition of jurisprudence; The meaning and significance of the rule of Law; The character and foundation of the modern state; The individualist model of the state; The organicist model of the state; Liberal-democratic critics of organicism; The idea of the common good; The objective basis of the common good
Description / Table of Contents:
The limits of the state and the common good of humanity
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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