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This book is about the radical novelty of modern polities in a
functionally differentiated world society. Premodern states were at
the apex of a stratified, hierarchical society. They dominated
society and all its groups and strata. Modern polities have to be
understood through the ecology of relations among different
function systems. They have to find and incessantly redefine their
place in society. They produce decisions that are collectively
binding, but in preparing these decisions experience constraints
and knowledge deficiencies that are related to the complexity of a
functionally differentiated society. The book concentrates on six
analytical perspectives that reflect how modern polities are
embedded into 21st century society. These perspectives are: the
concept of inclusion and the inclusion revolution constitutive of
modern polities; the internal differentiation of polities that
endows them with an unprecedented complexity; the fact that
polities do not know anything about society and the ways in which
they compensate for this; representation and responsiveness as
strategies to reconnect with society; the self-restriction of some
polities that brings about ever new autonomous expert
organizations; the symmetrical rise of autocracies and democracies
as the two modern variants of political regimes.
Proceedings of a conference held in October, 2007 at the
Europ'aische Akademie in Berlin.
In diesem Buch findet sich mit den Begriffen von Weltstaat und
Weltstaatlichkeit ein anregendes Potenzial zur systematischen
Beobachtung globaler politisch-rechtlicher Strukturbildung, welches
die bisher eher fragmentarisch bleibenden Beobachtungsmoglichkeiten
der bekannten Ansatze von Globalisierung und Global Governance
grundlegend erweitert.
Mit Beitragen von Mathias Albert, Rudolf Stichweh, Andreas
Fischer-Lescano und Gunther Teubner, Hauke Brunkhorst, Andreas
Niederberger, Helmut Willke, Lothar Brock und Lutz Leisering."
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