Stephen Tierney

Constitutional Law and National Pluralism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the constitutional issues, both in theory and in practice, that accompany the existence of national diversity in pluralist democracies. Tierney contends that the democratic plurinational state, characterized by the presence of more than one national group within the State, is a discrete category of multi-level polity which defies the standard classifications of liberal constitutionalism. Building upon this theoretical basis, the book focuses upon recent developments toward the institutional accommodation of Catalonia, Quebec, and Scotland. Tierney examines the legal issues which arise from the challenges posed by sub-state nations within multinational democracies to the constitutional and institutional structures of particular States, and also to some of the fundamental precepts of democratic constitutional theory and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780199298617
• ISBN-10: 0199298610
• Artikelnr.: 22426837

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I Theoretical approaches to national pluralism
* 1: The plurinational state in context
* 2: Theories of nationalism and national identity
* 3: The plurinational state: a normative challenge
* 4: Sub-State national societies and contemporary challenges to the
nation-state
* Part II The constitutional accommodation of Catalonia, Quebec and
Scotland
* 5: The process of constitutional change in plurinational states
* 6: Substantive constitutional accommodation: autonomy, representation
and recognition
* 7: The judicial role: mediating national diversity in plurinational
states
* 8: Referendums: towards agreed models of constitutional accommodation
* 9: Future prospects for the plurinational state