Mc Cormick, John P.

Weber, habermas and transformation of the European state : constitutional, social, and supranational democracy by John P. Mc Cormick. - Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2007. - 301 p.

Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction: theorizing modern transformations of law and democracy
Chapter 2. The historical logic(s) of Habermas's critique of Weber's "sociology of law"
Chapter 3. The puzzle of law, democracy and historical change in Weber's "sociology of law"
Chapter 4. Habermas's deliberatively legal Sozialstaat: democracy, adjudication and reflexive law
Chapter 5. Habermas on the European union: normative aspirations, empirical questions and historical assumptions
Chapter 6. The structural transformation to the supranational Sektoralstaat and prospects for democracy in the EU
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Habermas's philosophy of history and the future of Europe
Index.

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Constitutional history--European Union countries.

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