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From the co-authors of the classic Civil Society and Political
Theory, Populism and Civil Society offers an empirically informed,
systematic theoretical analysis of the political challenges posed
by contemporary populism to constitutional democracies. Populism
and Civil Society provides a political assessment and critical
theory of the significance of what is now a global phenomenon: the
growing populist challenge to constitutional democracy. Andrew
Arato and Jean L. Cohen examine the challenge it presents in terms
of its four main organizational forms: socio-political movement,
political party, government, and regime. They focus in particular
on the tense relationship of populism to democracy and of populism
to constitutionalism. Without presupposing the authoritarian logic
of the phenomenon in the definition, the book demonstrates it
through the reconstruction of the main elements used by advocates
to identify populism. To be sure, the authoritarian logic of
populism is not realized in every instance of it, and the book
analyses why this is so. Across modern history, many populist
governments have in fact been "hybrid" regimes, blending
authoritarian elements and residual democratic forms. Populism on
its own, however, is a form of abusive or instrumental
"constitutionalism" that typically relies on the alleged permanence
of the quasi-revolutionary constituent power. The book concludes by
outlining a non- and anti-populist project of democratization and
social justice, distinguishing between the "popular" and the
"populist" and offering a program that is nourished by the
plurality of democracies and which rescues some of left populism's
more benevolent "host ideologies."
Polarization between political religionists and militant
secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise.
Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious
accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional
secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It
identifies which connections between religion and the state are
compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles
of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their
implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the
United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from
philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological
perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their
project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work
brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights
and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment
norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism.
They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international
legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public
spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of
religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of
religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy
when it violates international human rights agreements or
liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the
concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a
principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.
Polarization between political religionists and militant
secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise.
Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious
accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional
secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It
identifies which connections between religion and the state are
compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles
of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their
implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the
United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from
philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological
perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their
project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work
brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights
and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment
norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism.
They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international
legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public
spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of
religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of
religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy
when it violates international human rights agreements or
liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the
concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a
principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.
In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear
in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept
of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that
could become the primary locus for the expansion of democracy and
rights. In this major contribution to contemporary political
theory, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato argue that the concept of civil
society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could
become a primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights.
Sovereignty and the sovereign state are often seen as anachronisms;
Globalization and Sovereignty challenges this view. Jean L. Cohen
analyzes the new sovereignty regime emergent since the 1990s
evidenced by the discourses and practice of human rights,
humanitarian intervention, transformative occupation, and the UN
targeted sanctions regime that blacklists alleged terrorists.
Presenting a systematic theory of sovereignty and its
transformation in international law and politics, Cohen argues for
the continued importance of sovereign equality. She offers a theory
of a dualistic world order comprised of an international society of
states, and a global political community in which human rights and
global governance institutions affect the law, policies, and
political culture of sovereign states. She advocates the
constitutionalization of these institutions, within the framework
of constitutional pluralism. This book will appeal to students of
international political theory and law, political scientists,
sociologists, legal historians, and theorists of constitutionalism.
Sovereignty and the sovereign state are often seen as anachronisms;
Globalization and Sovereignty challenges this view. Jean L. Cohen
analyzes the new sovereignty regime emergent since the 1990s
evidenced by the discourses and practice of human rights,
humanitarian intervention, transformative occupation, and the UN
targeted sanctions regime that blacklists alleged terrorists.
Presenting a systematic theory of sovereignty and its
transformation in international law and politics, Cohen argues for
the continued importance of sovereign equality. She offers a theory
of a dualistic world order comprised of an international society of
states, and a global political community in which human rights and
global governance institutions affect the law, policies, and
political culture of sovereign states. She advocates the
constitutionalization of these institutions, within the framework
of constitutional pluralism. This book will appeal to students of
international political theory and law, political scientists,
sociologists, legal historians, and theorists of constitutionalism.
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