Voices, Spaces, and Processes in Constitutionalism

by Harvey, Colin; Morison, John; Shaw, Jo

• ISBN13: 9780631218845
• ISBN10: 063121884X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book explores new thinking on constitutionalism, governance and regulation. This new thinking is emerging against the backdrop of constitutional restructuring in the UK and elsewhere as well as in the context of European Union developments. There are important issues emerging about regulation and democracy in all the other various sites of power - the European post-state arrangements, the nation state in its splintering forms, regions and cities, public and private space, the economy and the corporate world, and both formal and informal politics. This book seeks to engage with many of these.The focus of the work is beyond the formal agenda of reform, looking instead at how ideas of constitutionalism and governance are undergoing a transformation and being expanded beyond traditional notions of the control of government and the liberal project of translating universal principles into common standards for the establishment of agreed functional institutions. The book brings together a number of authors who have, through their work, attempted to understand the multiple meanings of such changes for the future of constitutionalism and governance. In an environment of rapid change to formal constitutions, of new voices entering the continuing dialoge about constitutionalism and governance, these essays aim to recognize the complexity and fragmentation typical of modern times and emphasize the multi-layered nature and future development of cosmopolitan governance.

Author Biography

Colin Harvey and John Morison are the authors of Voices, Spaces, and Processes in Constitutionalism, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Voices, Spaces, and Processes in Constitutionalism	1	(3)
Colin Harvey
John Morison
Jo Shaw
Process and Constitutional Discourse in the European Union	4	(34)
Jo Shaw
Accountability in the Regulatory State	38	(23)
Colin Scott
Governing after the Rights Revolution	61	(37)
Colin Harvey
The Government-Voluntary Sector Compacts: Governance, Governmentality, and Civil Society	98	(35)
John Morison
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? A Critique of the Ability of Community Mediation to Suppress and Facilitate Participation in Civil Life	133	(18)
Linda Mulcahy
Business, State, and Community: `Responsible Risk Takers', New Labour, and the Governance of Corporate Business	151	(27)
Gary Wilson
Post-nationalism and the Quest for Constitutional Substitutes	178
Damian Chalmers