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  • A Sociology of Constitutions

    Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective

    by Chris Thornhill ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • A Sociology of Post-Imperial Constitutions

    Suppressed Civil War and Colonized Citizens

    by Chris Thornhill ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Covering the period from the eighteenth century to the present, A Sociology of Post-Imperial Constitutions combines global history and historical legal sociology to explain how democratic constitutions were created by imperialism and military policies related to imperialism. It challenges common views about the relation between democracy and peace, examining how, in different locations and ... Read more

    $165.59 CAD

  • A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions

    Social Foundations of the Post-National Legal Structure

    by Chris Thornhill ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and international courts, and by the domestic transformation of international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of institutional formation at key historical junctures in a number of national societies, it examines the social processes that have locked national states ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Political Theory in Modern Germany

    An Introduction

    by Chris Thornhill ...
    This book provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the major political thinkers of modern Germany. It includes chapters on the works of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Franz Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Jurgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann. These works are examined in their social and historical contexts, ranging from the period of Bismarck to the present day.A clear picture is presented of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy

    by Chris Thornhill ...
    Series series Global Law Series
    This book provides a new legal-sociological account of contemporary democracy. It 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 ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • German Political Philosophy

    The Metaphysics of Law

    by Chris Thornhill ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    This book combines philosophical, intellectual-historical and political-theoretical methodologies to provide a new synoptic reading of the history of German political philosophy. Incorporating chapters on the political ideas of Luther and Zwingli, on the politics of the early Enlightenment, on Idealism, on Historicism and Lukács, on early Twentieth-Century political theology, on the Frankfurt ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Karl Jaspers

    Politics and Metaphysics

    by Dr Chris Thornhill, Chris Thornhill ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent of irrationalist cultural philosophy or as an early, peripheral disciple of Martin Heidegger, it re-establishes him as a central figure in modern European philosophy. Giving particular consideration to his position in epistemological, metaphysical ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Sociological Constitutionalism

    Edited by Paul Blokker, Chris Thornhill ...
    This landmark book provides the first systematic overview of the key scholarly contributions in an emerging field of research on constitutionalism: the sociology of constitutions. It presents chapters offering very different normative and methodological approaches to constitutions, ranging from analysis of national constitutional law, to research on transnational legal forms, to discussions of the ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Law and the Formation of Modern Europe

    Perspectives from the Historical Sociology of Law

    Edited by Mikael Rask Madsen, Chris Thornhill ...
    Law and the Formation of Modern Europe explores processes of legal construction in both the national and supranational domains, and it provides an overview of the modern European legal order. In its supranational focus, it examines the sociological pressures which have given rise to European public law, the national origins of key transnational legal institutions and the elite motivations driving ... Read more

    $135.19 CAD

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    Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway ... Read more

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  • Not Enough

    Human Rights in an Unequal World

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    “No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.”—Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal“Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.”—George SorosThe age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

    Edited by Michel Rosenfeld, András Sajó ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges ... Read more

    $76.79 CAD