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  • Populism and Civil Society

    The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy

    From the co-authors of the classic Civil Society and Political Theory, Populism and Civil Society offers an empirically informed, systematic theoretical analysis of the political challenges posed by contemporary populism to constitutional democracies. Populism and Civil Society provides a political assessment and critical theory of the significance of what is now a global phenomenon: the growing ... Read more

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  • Constitution Making Under Occupation

    The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq

    by Andrew Arato ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
    The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents. This two-stage constitution-making paradigm, implemented in a wholly unplanned move by the Iraqis and their American sponsors, formed a kind of compromise between the populist ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of the Constituent Power

    Beyond Revolutions?

    by Andrew Arato ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
    Constitutions are made in almost all transformation of regimes. What are the dangers and the hopes associated with such a process? What can make constitution-making legitimate? The Adventures of the Constituent Power explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law, arguing that the most advanced method developed from Spain and South Africa. The first part of ... Read more

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  • From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory

    Essays on the Critical Theory of Soviet-type Societies

    by Andrew Arato ...
    The essays in this volume trace an intellectual odyssey, a search for a genuinely critical theory. The book begins with the question of why the Frankfurt School as well as other neo-Marxist and post-Marxist analysts, both in the West and in dissident circles in the East, failed to produce a critical theory of Soviet socialism or to establish a dynamic relationship with contemporary social ... Read more

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  • Post Sovereign Constitution Making

    Learning and Legitimacy

    by Andrew Arato ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Constitutional politics has become a major terrain of contemporary struggles. Contestation around designing, replacing, revising, and dramatically re-interpreting constitutions is proliferating worldwide. Starting with Southern Europe in post-Franco Spain, then in the ex-Communist countries in Central Europe, post-apartheid South Africa, and now in the Arab world, constitution making has become a ... Read more

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  • Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

    The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are ... Read more

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  • Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

    The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are ... Read more

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  • Civil Society, Constitution, and Legitimacy

    by Andrew Arato ...
    Spurred by recent governmental transitions from dictatorships to democratic institutions, this highly original work argues that negotiated civil society-oriented transitions have an affinity for a distinctive method of constitution making_one that accomplishes the radical change of institutions through legal continuity. Arato presents a compelling argument that this is the preferred method for ... Read more

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  • Historiography in the Twentieth Century

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    This booklet discusses a major recent study on Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks" - Peter Thomas's "The Gramscian Moment" - and argues that the Notebooks were in fact a powerful contribution to the working-out of revolutionary working-class strategy in developed capitalist societies. ... Read more

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  • What Is Populism?

    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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