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Political pluralism and the state beyond sovereignty /

This is the first work in political theory to bring together IR, comparative politics and political theory approaches to analyze the post-sovereign state and develop a new interpretative scheme for social and political scientists.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wissenburg, M. L. J.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge innovations in political theory ; 31.
Subjects:
Sovereignty.
Cultural pluralism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > Government
POLITICAL SCIENCE > National. > Government
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Sovereignty and the state
  • Replies to political pluralization
  • From politics to policy
  • Citizen and citizenship
  • The environment
  • The undiscovered polis
  • Political pluralization
  • New polities, new problems
  • Internationalization
  • The treaty culture
  • Dehierarchization
  • The challenges of political pluralization
  • Other directions
  • The need to interfere
  • Authoritative interference
  • Politics versus economy: the green battlefield
  • Green production
  • Payoffs and incentives
  • The need for political incentives
  • A summary
  • Conclusion
  • Principles, discord and concord
  • Principles and politics
  • Objective truth
  • The principle of popularity
  • Controlled deliberation
  • Philosophical and political liberalism
  • Conclusion
  • Sustainability as a policy telos
  • Policy teloi
  • Sustainable development: ecology versus environment
  • Same telos, different place: liberal versus non-liberal societies
  • Perspectives
  • Beyond political principles
  • Foundational principles
  • Beyond the original position: the archpoint
  • The restraint principle
  • Beyond the archpoint
  • Conclusion
  • Alexandrism
  • Cutting a knot
  • Swords, axes and tweezers
  • Murder as a political tool
  • Torture, threats and the reign of terror
  • The enlightened despot
  • Proceduralism
  • Lottery
  • Conclusion
  • The new polis
  • The peppermill
  • The myth of the state
  • Conceptions of the polis
  • Metropolis
  • Conclusion
  • Citizenship in the metropolis
  • Introduction
  • The rise and fall of mass democracy
  • The complex concept of representation
  • Mass democracy and representation
  • Unequal and equal access
  • Two futures for substantive representation
  • The princes of industry
  • Two kinds of proactive citizen
  • A political history of the economy
  • Social responsibility: fields and questions
  • The impossibility of responsibility
  • The civic role of enterprise
  • Conclusion
  • Harmony and political pluralization
  • A political history
  • Legitimate political pluralization
  • Justice.

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