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1 Online-Ressource (xi, 253 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511490408
Content:
As social practices now frequently extend beyond national boundaries, experiences and expectations about fair and legitimate politics have become increasingly fragmented. Our ability to understand and interpret others and to tolerate difference, rather than overcome diversity, is therefore at risk. This book focuses on the contested meanings of norms in a world of increasing international encounters. The author argues that cultural practices are less visible than organisational practices, but are constitutive for politics and need to be understood and empirically 'accounted' for. Comparing four elite groups in Europe, Antje Wiener shows how this invisible constitution of politics matters. By comparing individual interpretations of norms such as democracy and human rights, she shows how they can mean different things, even to frequently travelling elite groups
Content:
Three theoretical moves. Constitutionalism beyond modernity ; The dual quality of norms ; Making normative meaning accountable for international relations -- Case study : reconstructing the structure of meaning-in-use. Citizenship ; Democracy and the rule of law ; Human rights and fundamental freedoms -- Evaluation. Comparative assessment and working hypothesis ; Incorporating access to contestation
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521895965
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107404403
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521895965
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511490408
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