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In this interdisciplinary volume, a group of prominent international scholars considers alternative political formations to the nation-state and their ability to preserve and expand the achievements of democratic constitutionalism in the twenty-first century. The book considers four different principles of organization—federation, subsidiarity, status group legal pluralism, and transnational corporate autonomy—contrasts them with the unitary and centralized nation-state, and inquires into their capacity to deal with deep societal differences. In essays that examine empire, indigenous struggles, corporate institutions, forms of federalism, and the complexities of political secularism, anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, political scientists, and sociologists remind us that the sovereign nation-state is not inevitable and that multinational and federal states need not privilege a particular group. Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism helps us answer the crucial question of whether any of the alternatives might be better suited to core democratic principles.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism, by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen
I. After Empire: Historical Alternatives
1. Federation, Confederation, Territorial State: Debating a Post-imperial Future in French West Africa, 1945-1960, by Fred Cooper
2. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy, by Gary Wilder
3. From the American System to Anglo-Saxon Union: Scientific Racism and Supra-Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century North America, by Joshua Simon
4. Constitutions and Forms of Pluralism in the Time of Conquest: The French Debates Over the Colonization of Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s, by Emmanuelle Saada
II. New Federal Formations and/or Subsidiarity
5. The Constitutional Identity of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Status Groups or Federal Actors?, by Patrick Macklem
6. Federacy and the Kurds: Might This New Political Form Help Mitigate Hobbesian Conflicts in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria?, by Alfred Stepan and Jeff Miley
7. Europe-What’s Left: Towards a Progressive Pluralist Program for EU Reform, by Robert Howse
8. Subsidiarity and the Challenge to the Sovereign State, by Nadia Urbinati
III. Status Group Legal Pluralism
9. Indian Secularism and Its Challenges, by Christophe Jaffrelot
10. Tainted Liberalism: Israel’s Millets, by Michael Karayanni
11. Jurisdictional Competition and Internal Reform in Muslim Family Law in Israel and Greece, by Yuksel Sezgin
IV. The Challenge of Corporate Power
12. Corporate Legal Particularism, by Katharina Pistor
13. Tax Competition and the Unbundling of Sovereignty, by Tsilly Dagan
14. The Politics of Horizontal Inequality: Indigenous Opposition to Wind Energy Development in Mexico, by Courtney Jung
Conclusion: Territorial Pluralism and Language Communities, by Astrid von Busekist
List of Contributors
Index