TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thornhill,C.J.
TI  - The sociology of law and the global transformation of democracy
T2  - Global law series
SN  - 9781108186049 (ebook)
AV  - K370 .T545 2018
U1  - 340/.115 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Sociological jurisprudence
KW  - Law
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jun 2018); Open Access title; The paradox of democracy and the sociology of law -- National democracy and global law -- Before the law? -- Politics becomes the law -- The reconstruction of democratic agency -- Conclusion; Open Access title
N2  - 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 structural factors, and that inclusive patterns of democratic citizenship only evolved on the foundation of global legal norms that were consolidated 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108186049
ER  -