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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.
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.
Bringing a unique voice to international taxation, this book argues
against the conventional support of multilateral co-operation in
favour of structured competition as a way to promote both justice
and efficiency in international tax policy. Tsilly Dagan analyzes
international taxation as a decentralized market, where governments
have increasingly become strategic actors. While many of the
challenges of the current international tax regime derive from this
decentralized competitive structure, Dagan argues that curtailing
competition through centralization is not necessarily the answer.
Conversely, competition - if properly calibrated and
notwithstanding its dubious reputation - is conducive, rather than
detrimental, to both efficiency and global justice. International
Tax Policy begins with the basic normative goals of income
taxation, explaining how competition transforms them and analyzing
the strategic game states play on the bilateral and multilateral
level. It then considers the costs and benefits of co-operation and
competition in terms of efficiency and justice.
Bringing a unique voice to international taxation, this book argues
against the conventional support of multilateral co-operation in
favour of structured competition as a way to promote both justice
and efficiency in international tax policy. Tsilly Dagan analyzes
international taxation as a decentralized market, where governments
have increasingly become strategic actors. While many of the
challenges of the current international tax regime derive from this
decentralized competitive structure, Dagan argues that curtailing
competition through centralization is not necessarily the answer.
Conversely, competition - if properly calibrated and
notwithstanding its dubious reputation - is conducive, rather than
detrimental, to both efficiency and global justice. International
Tax Policy begins with the basic normative goals of income
taxation, explaining how competition transforms them and analyzing
the strategic game states play on the bilateral and multilateral
level. It then considers the costs and benefits of co-operation and
competition in terms of efficiency and justice.
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