{"product_id":"after-national-democracy-pb-rights-law-and-power-in-america-and-the-new-europe-9781841133294","title":"After National Democracy PB: Rights Law and Power in America and the New Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lars Tragardh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"imagined community\" of the nation, which 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 Is the notion of a nationally-bound citizen in the process of being superceded by a cosmopolitan legal subject?","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082022674583,"sku":"9781841133294","price":5719.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781841133294.webp?v=1767262967","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/after-national-democracy-pb-rights-law-and-power-in-america-and-the-new-europe-9781841133294","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}