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The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy

By Chris Thornhill
Cambridge University Press June 2018

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ISBN-13
9781316649060
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
June 2018
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This title provides a new legal-sociological account of contemporary democracy. This is based on a revision of standard positions in democratic theory, reflecting the impact of global legal norms on the institutions of national states.

Chris Thornhill argues that the establishment of fully democratic, fully inclusive governance systems in national societies was generally impeded by inner-societal structural factors, and that inclusive patterns of democratic citizenship only evolved on the foundation of global legal norms commencing after 1945. He claims that this process can be best understood through a transposition of key insights of classical legal sociology onto the form of global society. Extensive analysis of select case studies in different regions illustrate these claims.

Thornhill offers a sociological theory of global law to explain contemporary processes of democratic integration and institutional formation and contemporary constructions of citizenship and political rights. This title is also available as Open Access.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The paradox of democracy and the sociology of law
2. National democracy and global law
3. Before the law?
4. Politics becomes the law
5. The reconstruction of democratic agency
Conclusion
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