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

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ISBN: 9780521743631 | 052174363X
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Copyright: 1/12/2009

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This book draws on the writings of Max Weber and J8rgen 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.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Theorizing Modern Transformations of Law and Democracy	p. 1
Critical Theory and Structural Transformations	p. 6
Critical Theory and the Supranational Constellation	p. 12
Chapter Outline	p. 16
Law, Democracy, and State Transformation Today	p. 24
The Historical Logic(s) of Habermas's Critique of Weber's "Sociology of Law"	p. 27
The Fragility of Legal-Rational Legitimacy	p. 30
Moral Underpinnings of Formal Law	p. 31
The Possibility of Rationally Coherent Sozialstaat Law	p. 34
Secularization, Commodification, and History Excursus: The Transformation of Habermas's Theory of History	p. 49
Philosophy of History and the Sociology of Law	p. 59
Conclusion	p. 67
The Puzzle of Law, Democracy, and Historical Change in Weber's "Sociology of Law"	p. 70
The Public-Private Law Distinction and "Modern" Law	p. 74
History as Confirmation/Contestation of Legal Categories	p. 81
Legal History as Contrast/Continuity with the Present	p. 83
Legal Limits on Power: Separation and Application	p. 89
Organizations, Special Law, and the Law of the Land	p. 97
Weber, Law, and Social Change	p. 104
Formal and Substantive Rationalization of Law	p. 107
Formal versus Substantive Law and the Sozialstaat	p. 113
Conclusion	p. 124
Habermas's Deliberatively Legal Sozialstaat: Democracy, Adjudication, and Reflexive Law	p. 126
Habermas on Language and Law, Lifeword and System	p. 128
Beyond Formalist and Vitalist Notions of Constitutional Democracy	p. 132
Rational and Democratically Accessible Adjudication	p. 140
Selecting Nineteenth- or Twentieth-Century Paradigms of Law	p. 154
Conceptual Paradigms and Historical Configurations of Law	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 174
Habermas on the EU: Normative Aspirations, Empirical Questions, and Historical Assumptions	p. 176
Global Problems to Be Solved by EU Democracy	p. 180
The History of the State as a Guide to the Present	p. 192
The Form and Content of EU Democracy	p. 205
Critical-Historical Limits of Habermas's Theory of EU Democracy	p. 219
Conclusion	p. 229
The Structural Transformation to the Supranational Sektoralstaat and Prospects for Democracy in the EU	p. 231
Legal Integration and the Supranationalist Model	p. 236
State Centrism - EU Law Constrained	p. 245
The European Sektoralstaat Model	p. 250
Democracy, the EU Sektoralstaat, and Further Questions	p. 284
Conclusion: Habermas's Philosophy of History and Europe's Future	p. 287
Index	p. 295
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Weber, Habermas and Transformations of the European State: Constitutional, Social, and Supranational Democracy

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