Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism

Andrew Arato is the Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory at the New School. His many publications include Post Sovereign Constitutional Making: Learning and Legitimacy (2016) and Adventures of the Constituent Power: Beyond Revolutions? (2017).Jean L. Cohen is the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Political Theory at Columbia University. Her numerous books include Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism (2012), and she is coeditor of Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy (Columbia, 2015).Astrid von Busekist is professor of political science at Sciences Po, Paris. Her books include Portes et murs: Des frontières en démocratie (2016) and she is the editor in chief of the journal Raisons Politiques.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism, by Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen I. After Empire: Historical Alternatives1. Federation, Confederation, Territorial State: Debating a Post-imperial Future in French West Africa, 1945-1960, by Fred Cooper2. Decolonization and Postnational Democracy, by Gary Wilder3. From the American System to Anglo-Saxon Union: Scientific Racism and Supra-Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century North America, by Joshua Simon4. Constitutions and Forms of Pluralism in the Time of Conquest: The French Debates Over the Colonization of Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s, by Emmanuelle SaadaII. New Federal Formations and/or Subsidiarity5. The Constitutional Identity of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Status Groups or Federal Actors?, by Patrick Macklem6. Federacy and the Kurds: Might This New Political Form Help Mitigate Hobbesian Conflicts in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria?, by Alfred Stepan and Jeff Miley7. Europe-What’s Left: Towards a Progressive Pluralist Program for EU Reform, by Robert Howse8. Subsidiarity and the Challenge to the Sovereign State, by Nadia UrbinatiIII. Status Group Legal Pluralism9. Indian Secularism and Its Challenges, by Christophe Jaffrelot10. Tainted Liberalism: Israel’s Millets, by Michael Karayanni11. Jurisdictional Competition and Internal Reform in Muslim Family Law in Israel and Greece, by Yuksel SezginIV. The Challenge of Corporate Power12. Corporate Legal Particularism, by Katharina Pistor13. Tax Competition and the Unbundling of Sovereignty, by Tsilly Dagan14. The Politics of Horizontal Inequality: Indigenous Opposition to Wind Energy Development in Mexico, by Courtney JungConclusion: Territorial Pluralism and Language Communities, by Astrid von BusekistList of ContributorsIndex

What is the best political form for modern democratic orders—a nation-state, a sovereign state, an empire, a confederation, an international organization, a federation of states, or a federal state? In an age where the classical answers to this question have become unsatisfying, the authors in this book come up with new arguments and answers. The articles are crisply written and very accessible for political scientists, legal scholars, and historians. The book is essential reading for those who want to know about the institutional options in order to keep democracy’s future in the age of globalization alive.