Columbia University Press
Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism
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About this book
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Jean L. Cohen is the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Political Theory at Columbia University. Her numerous books include Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism (2012), and she is coeditor of Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy (Columbia, 2015).
Astrid von Busekist is professor of political science at Sciences Po, Paris. Her books include Portes et murs: Des frontières en démocratie (2016) and she is the editor in chief of the journal Raisons Politiques.
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The essays in Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism address an important new topic with clarity and substance. All in all, this is an extraordinary book which incorporates the very best of scholarship on a significant topic, constitutionalism and pluralism, and is fundamental reading for the current debates in political theory, law, sociology, and political philosophy.
Karuna Mantena, Yale University:
Diverse, sharp, and timely, this volume is a welcome intervention in the debate on postnational political forms. The authors explore a panoply of historical and contemporary pluralist ideas and institutions—from empire, federation, subsidiarity, status group pluralism, to transnational corporate jurisdiction—and critically detail their political trajectories and normative possibilities. What makes this volume distinctive is its constructive orientation and global scope. It asks with clarity how these political forms might be revived, reformed, and enacted without undermining the ideals of democratic self-rule and political equality that the nation-state was meant to secure.
Cécile Laborde, University of Oxford:
This unique volume explores the various dimensions of the contemporary crisis of the modern nation-state and the potentialities and dangers of alternative political forms, such as dispersed sovereignty, legal pluralism, and corporate governance. Timely, systematic and wide-ranging, it offers unrivaled insights into the distinctive political challenges of our times.
Hubertus Buchstein, Universität Greifswald:
What is the best political form for modern democratic orders—a nation-state, a sovereign state, an empire, a confederation, an international organization, a federation of states, or a federal state? In an age where the classical answers to this question have become unsatisfying, the authors in this book come up with new arguments and answers. The articles are crisply written and very accessible for political scientists, legal scholars, and historians. The book is essential reading for those who want to know about the institutional options in order to keep democracy’s future in the age of globalization alive.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism
1 - PART I. AFTER EMPIRE: HISTORICAL ALTERNATIVES
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1. Federation, Confederation, Territorial State: Debating a Postimperial Future in French West Africa, 1945–1960
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2. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy
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3. From the American System to Anglo-Saxon Union: Scientific Racism and Supranationalism in Nineteenth-Century North America
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4. Constitutions and Forms of Pluralism in the Time of Conquest: The French Debates Over the Colonization of Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s
95 - PART II. NEW FEDERAL FORMATIONS AND SUBSIDIARITY
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5. The Constitutional Identity of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Status Groups or Federal Actors?
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6. Federacy and the Kurds: Might This New Political Form Help Mitigate Hobbesian Conflicts in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria?
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7. Europe—What’s Left? Toward a Progressive Pluralist Program for EU Reform
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8. Subsidiarity and the Challenge to the Sovereign State
187 - PART III. STATUS GROUP LEGAL PLURALISM
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9. Indian Secularism and Its Challenges
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10. Tainted Liberalism: Israel’s Millets
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11. Jurisdictional Competition and Internal Reform in Muslim Family Law in Israel and Greece
259 - PART IV. THE CHALLENGE OF CORPORATE POWER
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12. Corporate Legal Particularism
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13. The Marketization of Tax Sovereignty
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14. The Politics of Horizontal Inequality: Indigenous Opposition to Wind Energy Development in Mexico
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Conclusion: Territorial Pluralism and Language Communities
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List of Contributors
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Index
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