Weber, Habermas and Transformations of the European State: Constitutional, Social, and Supranational Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780521743631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 318 str.

John P. McCormick

Opis

This book draws on the writings of Max Weber and Jurgen Habermas to trace the relationship of law and democracy in three configurations of the European state: the liberal state (or Rechtsstaat), the welfare state (Sozialstaat), and the emerging supranational polity represented by the European Union. John P. McCormick exposes the tendency of social and political theorists to reach back unreflectively to the past and outlines a new, more appropriate normative-empirical model, the supranational Sektoralstaat, for evaluating prospects for constitutional and social democracy in the EU."

Recenzje

"...one cannot fail to appreciate the force and urgency of [John McCormick's] appeal for a supranational governance that is desperately needed in the European Union today. This book brings into clear focus one vision and will stimulate further discussion of what form that governance should take, as well making a major contribution to the on-going scholarly engagement with Weber and Habermans."
-Anthony J. Carroll, Heythrop College, University of London, The Heythrop Journal

Spis treści

1. Introduction: theorizing modern transformations of law and democracy; 2. The historical logic(s) of Habermas's critique of Weber's 'sociology of law'; 3. The puzzle of law, democracy and historical change in Weber's 'sociology of law'; 4. Habermas's deliberatively legal Sozialstaat; 5. Habermas on the European Union: normative aspirations; 6. The structural transformation to the supranational Sektoralstaat and prospects for democracy in the EU; 7. Conclusion: Habermas's philosophy of history and the future of Europe.