Daniel Elazar

Covenant and Civil Society

Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9781560003113
• ISBN-10: 1560003111
• Artikelnr.: 26192758

Autorenporträt

Daniel J. Elazar

Inhaltsangabe

1: Covenant
1: Prologue
2: Covenant and the New Political Science
3: Britain
4: From Tocqueville to Personalism
5: Four Twentieth-Century Federalist Thinkers
2: Covenant and the Age of State-Building
6: Europe
7: The Covenant Motif in Modern Revolutions
8: Revolutions
9: Swiss Exceptionalism
3: Covenant and Constitutionalism
10: Constitutionalism
11: The Three Dimensions of the Constitution
12: The Covenant Tradition and Rights
4: Present and Future
13: The Decline and Possible Revival of Covenant in Our Times
14: Toward a World Covenantal Network
15: Covenant, Republicanism, and Democracy
16: Where Does This Bring Us?
Excursus 1 The Language of Covenant
Excursus 2 The Biblical Covenant as the Foundation of Justice, Obligations, and Rights