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The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy

Author : Chris Thornhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108188028
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy written by Chris Thornhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new legal-sociological account of contemporary democracy. It is based on a revision of standard positions in democratic theory, reflecting the impact of global legal norms on the institutions of national states. Chris Thornhill argues that the establishment of fully democratic, fully inclusive governance systems in national societies was generally impeded by inner-societal structural factors, and that inclusive patterns of democratic citizenship only evolved on the foundation of global legal norms that were consolidated after 1945. He claims that this process can be best understood through a transposition of key insights of classical legal sociology onto the form of global society. Extensive analysis of select case studies in different regions illustrate these claims. Thornhill offers a sociological theory of global law to explain contemporary processes of democratic integration and institutional formation, and contemporary constructions of citizenship and political rights. This title is also available as Open Access.

Democratic Crisis and Global Constitutional Law

Author : Christopher Thornhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496083
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Crisis and Global Constitutional Law written by Christopher Thornhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the current weakness of democratic polities by addressing paradoxes in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations.

The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy

Author : Chris Thornhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107199905
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions

Author : Chris Thornhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316715140
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions written by Chris Thornhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and international courts, and by the domestic transformation of international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of institutional formation at key historical junctures in a number of national societies, it examines the social processes that have locked national states into an increasingly transnational constitutional order, and it explains how the growth of global constitutional norms has provided a stabilizing framework for the functions of state institutions. The book adopts a distinctive historical-sociological approach to these questions, examining the deep continuities between national constitutional law and contemporary models of global law. The volume makes an important contribution to the sociology of constitutional law, to the sociology of post-national legal processes, and to the sociology of human rights law. This title is also available as Open Access.

The Rise of the Global Left

Author : Boaventura De Sousa Santos
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137745
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Global Left written by Boaventura De Sousa Santos and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum, arguing that its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change can be achieved only by taking a stand against neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and corruption. However, since its inception in Porto Alegre in 2001, the World Social Forum has refused to adopt political positions on world events, preferring instead to provide a platform that facilitates cooperation between diverse social movements. Through a detailed analysis of the WSF's history and organization, he demonstrates that it has always been an inherently political organization, and argues that if the WSF is able to realise its potential as an institution for a new form of politics, it will become a global power to be reckoned with in the 21st century.

Sociological Constitutionalism

Author : Paul Blokker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107124042
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Sociological Constitutionalism written by Paul Blokker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book provides the first systematic overview of key research in the sociology of constitutions.

Law, Society, and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives

Author : Richard D. Schwartz
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Law, Society, and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives written by Richard D. Schwartz and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In George Bush's Second Inaugural Address, he stated, "so it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture ..." Along with such a formidable challenge, comes the essential need for scholars and policy makers alike to gain a deeper understanding of the interrelationship between law, society, and culture. Collected from the successful 2005 Syracuse conference of the same name, the papers in this unique issue of The ANNALS zero in on critical studies that focus on other societies – which are evolving toward (or away from) constitutional democracy and a rule of law. Not to be confused with Social Darwinism, the term legal evolution in this context refers to the development or changes of law; and the papers included here demonstrate value-free objectivity – not labeling the results as either "good" or "bad." Rather than offering a prescriptive or claiming a precise forecast, this collection of thoughtful research examines the sociocultural foundations on which law is built, constructing the groundwork for the advancement of policy and further exploration in this intriguing area of study. The intense research conducted by these authors shines through as they elucidate the patterns of legal development and governmental change in societies abroad. Their reports and analysis will help readers understand the diversity of sociolegal systems and divergent paths that have been followed as laws have developed in a wide variety of societies, including South Africa, Germany, Latin America Sudan, Saudi-Arabia, and China. Terrorism remains an underlying issue in both a domestic and global perspective. Can law contribute to the control of terrorism? Are we moving toward global rules of law? What are the consequences of transitioning toward democracy? The thoughtful papers in this issue address these and other timely topics. How can legal evolution be a useful tool for analyzing social change? How well does law in any society express and implement the needs of the population? What effect do social mores have on the effectiveness of law? The complexity of these questions cannot be easily answered. However, after carefully reviewing the rich collection of ideas gathered in this single issue, scholars and policy makers will gain a deeper understanding of the evolution of law and constitutional democracy.

Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law

Author : William E. Scheuerman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 041570183X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law written by William E. Scheuerman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Lawmakes use of the work of first-generation Frankfurt School theorist Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with his famous successor, JÃ¼rgen Habermas, to try to understand the momentous political and legal transformations generated by globalization. This volume demonstrates that the Frankfurt School tradition speaks directly to some pressing political and social concerns, including globalization, the reform of the welfare state, and the environmental crisis. Despite widespread claims to the contrary, the legal substructure of economic globalization tends to conflict with traditional models of the "rule of law." Neumannâ€™s prediction that contemporary capitalism would decreasingly depend on generality, clarity, publicity, and stability in the law is supported by a surprising variety of empirical evidence. Habermasâ€™s recent work is then interrogated in order to pursue the question of how we might counteract the deleterious trends accurately predicted by Neumann. How might democracy and the rule of law flourish in the context of globalization? The book is intended for scholars and advanced students in political science, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.

The sociology of sovereignty

Author : Terje Rasmussen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526170809
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The sociology of sovereignty written by Terje Rasmussen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty from a sociological perspective. Informed by the sociologists Max Weber and Niklas Luhmann, it addresses the concept as the centre of constitutional controversy and as a resource to deal with paradoxes of power in constitutional democracies. It discusses the dilemmas of sovereignty that appear in the wake of the emphasis on political representation, human rights and European integration. The book marks a significant contribution to the scholarly debate on the foundation of constitutional democracy.

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law

Author : Jiří Přibáň
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789905184
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on the Sociology of Law written by Jiří Přibáň and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique Research Handbook maps the historical, theoretical, and methodological concepts in sociology of law, exploring the rich and complex nature of this area of research. It argues that sociology of law flourishes due to its strong capacity for interdisciplinary engagement and links to other scientific concepts, methodologies and research fields.

Law in a New Key

Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : Quid Pro, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781610270441
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Law in a New Key written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Quid Pro, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for thoughtful readers--and not particularly lawyers or scholars of law and society--who are engaged in the issues of the day and want something other than "easy" answers from the right and left. Most issues of law and social policy can be understood better through a lens that balances rights and interests--and protects all of us while protecting each of us--says renowned communitarian sociologist Amitai Etzioni in his latest of 30 books. In Law in a New Key, Etzioni addresses hot-bed issues of terrorism, drone warfare, airport security and scanners, government surveillance, DNA banks, norms of social disapproval and forgiveness, human rights, and respect for ethnic cultural differences. He shares his perspective as one who has fought in war and part of a resistance, and then later became a professor at Columbia University and George Washington University. The perspective and his decades of academic research persuaded him that the answer to thorny legal and policy issues is found neither in unyielding devotion to individual rights at all costs nor in reflexive empowerment of the state in times of crisis and pain. The answer is in moral dialogs, respect for the basic right to life and security, responsible checks on power, and a balancing of interests in a world of pundits and partisans who favor one right. What good is the right to privacy if the basic right to live is sacrificed as the right-holder is blown out of the sky? If new technologies make it possible to conduct terrorism and crime without the law catching up to them? What happens when respect for one religious position means choosing among religious positions? A collection of 15 trenchant essays drawn from the popular press and academic journals, yet accessible to a spectrum of readers who care about the key issues of the day and see the complexity in them, Law in a New Key takes a fresh look at important topics that need examination through a community-concerned lens. The frame gives contours and substance to today's debates without offering the usual entrenched policy solutions of parroting partisans. Etzioni asks such questions frankly, and on a variety of topics that matter. Rights carry responsibilities, and freedom and human rights must put living first--in a world that does not always concede that self-evident proposition. It is book about law and society whose time has come. For many readers, the social and legal notes he plays will finally sound in their register.

Global Justice and Social Conflict

Author : Tarik Kochi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317571428
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Global Justice and Social Conflict written by Tarik Kochi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Justice and Social Conflict offers a ground-breaking historical and theoretical reappraisal of the ideas that underpin and sustain the global liberal order, international law and neoliberal rationality. Across the 20th and 21st centuries, liberalism, and increasingly neoliberalism, have dominated the construction and shape of the global political order, the global economy and international law. For some, this development has been directed by a vision of ‘global justice’. Yet, for many, the world has been marked by a history and continued experience of injustice, inequality, indignity, insecurity, poverty and war – a reality in which attempts to realise an idea of justice cannot be detached from acts of violence and widespread social conflict. In this book Tarik Kochi argues that to think seriously about global justice we need to understand how both liberalism and neoliberalism have pushed aside rival ideas of social and economic justice in the name of private property, individualistic rights, state security and capitalist ‘free’ markets. Ranging from ancient concepts of natural law and republican constitutionalism, to early modern ideas of natural rights and political economy, and to contemporary discourses of human rights, humanitarian war and global constitutionalism, Kochi shows how the key foundational elements of a now globalised political, economic and juridical tradition are constituted and continually beset by struggles over what counts as justice and over how to realise it. Engaging with a wide range of thinkers and reaching provocatively across a breadth of subject areas, Kochi investigates the roots of many globalised struggles over justice, human rights, democracy and equality, and offers an alternative constitutional understanding of the future of emancipatory politics and international law. Global Justice and Social Conflict will be essential reading for scholars and students with an interest in international law, international relations, international political economy, intellectual history, and critical and political theory.

Handbook on Global Constitutionalism

Author : Anthony F. Lang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802200266
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Global Constitutionalism written by Anthony F. Lang and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised Handbook presents an up-to-date political and philosophical history of global constitutionalism. By exploring the constitutional-like qualities of international affairs, it provides key insight into the evolving world order.

Anti-Constitutional Populism

Author : Martin Krygier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009033344
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Constitutional Populism written by Martin Krygier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, populist parties have sprung up in formerly and formally liberal-democratic polities, challenging their existing political parties and leaders, and frequently overwhelming them. These challenges and successes were rarely predicted, arriving so soon after the wave of liberal democratic and constitutional enthusiasms, proclamations and institution-building which peaked in the 1990s. Bringing together scholars from law, political science and philosophy, this collection explores the character of contemporary populisms and their relationships to constitutional democracy. With contributors from around the world, it offers a diverse range of nuanced perspectives on populism as a global phenomenon. Using comparative and multi-disciplinary techniques, this book considers the specifics and similarities of populisms, and raises general questions about their nature and potential futures.

The End of Western Hegemonies?

Author : Marie-Josée Lavallée
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648895271
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book The End of Western Hegemonies? written by Marie-Josée Lavallée and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of recent trends like growing authoritarianism and xenophobic nationalism, the rise of the Far Right, the explosion of economic and social inequalities, heightened geopolitical contest and global capitalism’s endless crisis, and the impacts of shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic, discourses about the ‘decline of the West’ no more look like mere ruminations of a handful of cultural depressives and politically disillusioned; they sound increasingly realistic. This volume addresses this issue by mapping and analyzing the forms, mechanisms, strategies, and effects, in the past, the present, and the future, of Western hegemonies, namely, asymmetrical relations that bring advantages or, at least, secure the superiority of Western state and non-state actors in politics, economics, and culture broadly understood. Over the past decades and centuries, Westerners never ceased claiming supremacy in all these spheres. A host of these relations were initiated through colonialism and imperialism, and perpetuated through informal imperialism, but there are other channels: political interference, inequalities between countries, and attempts at affirming the supremacy of the so-called Western way of life was also secured through the military might and economic power of great Western actors. This book explores sites of Western hegemonies and contributes to understanding the mechanisms through which international hierarchies are formed and maintained. Bringing together the research of scholars from various fields in the humanities and social sciences, political science, international relations, political philosophy, sociology, history, postcolonial studies, criminology, and linguistics, this volume develops a multidisciplinary outlook on the issue of Western hegemonies that allows uncovering resemblances between various forms of asymmetrical relations and their mechanisms.

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

Author : Marie-Claire Foblets
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198840535
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology written by Marie-Claire Foblets and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. The structure of the Handbook is animated by an overarching collective narrative about how law and anthropology have and should relate to each other as intersecting domains of inquiry that address such fundamental questions as dispute resolution, normative ordering, social organization, and legal, political, and social identity. The need for such a comprehensive project has become even more pressing as lawyers and anthropologists work together in an ever-increasing number of areas, including immigration and asylum processes, international justice forums, cultural heritage certification and monitoring, and the writing of new national constitutions, among many others. The Handbook takes critical stock of these various points of intersection in order to identify and conceptualize the most promising areas of innovation and sociolegal relevance, as well as to acknowledge the points of tension, open questions, and areas for future development.

Teaching Political Sociology

Author : William Outhwaite
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802205152
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Political Sociology written by William Outhwaite and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the diverse experience of a team of internationally recognised specialists, Teaching Political Sociology provides educators with a concise and accessible guide to the main topic areas likely to form part of term, semester, or year-long courses in political sociology.