Emergency Politics Paradox, Law, Democracy

Name: Emergency Politics Paradox, Law, Democracy
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ISBN: 9780691152592

ISBN-10: 0691152594

ISBN-13: 9780691152592

Edition: 2009

Authors: Bonnie Honig

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This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance and centralize top-down forms of sovereignty? Those who oppose executive branch enhancement often turn instead to law, insisting on the sovereignty of the rule of law or demanding that law rather than force be used to resolve conflicts with enemies. But are these the only options? Or are there more democratic ways to respond to invocations of emergency politics? Looking at how emergencies in the past and present have shaped the development of democracy, Bonnie Honig argues that democratic politics are always a struggle to weigh the value of…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Bonnie Honig is the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a senior research professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Her books include "Democracy and the Foreigner" (Princeton) and "Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics".