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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC After National Democracy: Rights Law and Power in America and the New Europe 2004 by Edited by Lars Tragardh
The imagined community of the nationwhich 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 Is the notion of a nationally-bound citizen in the process of being superceded by a cosmopolitan legal subject?show more