Plurinational Democracy

Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era

Produkt bewerten

Michael Keating

Verlag:

Oxford University Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36013245

EAN: 9780199240760

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Do, 10.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

-16.6 %

CHF 235.–

CHF 196.–

Beschreibung

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the revival of stateless nationalisms, but also provided new means for their accommodation. The author argues that these changes call for a radical rethinking of the nature of sovereignty and of the state itself to meet the twin challenges of recognition of nationality and of democracy. Drawing on the experience of four plurinational states - United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and Canada - and of the European Union, he analyses the challenges of plurinationalism and its recognition. Keating argues that we are not moving to a world without states, but to a complex political order with multiple sites of sovereign authority, and asymmetrical constitutional r s6ngements. This political order is new but at the same time old, as traditions of diffused authority and shared sovereignty, from before the rise of the nation-state, are rediscovered and rehabilitated. Democracy can no longer be confined to the framework of the nation-state but must extend to the new political spaces which are emerging above and below the state. Political movements and public opinion in the stateless nations are increasingly embracing these ideas and are the harbingers of a post-sovereign political order.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Michael Keating

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Format

Buch (Hardcover)