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Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism (Paperback)
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The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long
been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist
assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are
compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights,
social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today,
challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are
proliferating on all levels, from multinational corporations and
international institutions to populist nationalisms and revanchist
ethnic and religious movements. Many critics see the nation-state
itself as a tool of racial and economic exclusion and repression.
What other options are available for managing pluralism, fostering
self-government, furthering social justice, and defending equality?
In this interdisciplinary volume, a group of prominent
international scholars considers alternative political formations
to the nation-state and their ability to preserve and expand the
achievements of democratic constitutionalism in the twenty-first
century. The book considers four different principles of
organization-federation, subsidiarity, status group legal
pluralism, and transnational corporate autonomy-contrasts them with
the unitary and centralized nation-state, and inquires into their
capacity to deal with deep societal differences. In essays that
examine empire, indigenous struggles, corporate institutions, forms
of federalism, and the complexities of political secularism,
anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, political scientists,
and sociologists remind us that the sovereign nation-state is not
inevitable and that multinational and federal states need not
privilege a particular group. Forms of Pluralism and Democratic
Constitutionalism helps us answer the crucial question of whether
any of the alternatives might be better suited to core democratic
principles.
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