After National Democracy PB: Rights Law and Power in America and the New Europe

Book Overview

The "imagined community" of the nation, which served as the affective basis for the post-French Revolution social contract, as well as its institutional counterpart, the welfare state, is 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841133299
• ISBN13: 9781841133294
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"