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9780203894118

Political Pluralism and the State : Beyond Sovereignty

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203894118

  • ISBN10:

    0203894111

  • Copyright: 2008-08-04
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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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

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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