The democratic legitimacy of international law
- Title
- The democratic legitimacy of international law / Steven Wheatley.
- Published by
- Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 400 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Accepts the extant, fragmented system, and develops the idea that the counter factual ideal of deliberative democracy developed by Jurgen Habermas can provide the basis for thinking about the exercise of political authority beyond the state, and explores an alternative view of the nature and purposes of the modern system of international law.
- Series statement
- Studies in international law ; v. 29
- Uniform title
- Studies in international law (Oxford, England) ; v. 29.
- Subject
- Contents
- The democratic deficit in global governance -- Democracy within and beyond the state -- The state as (democratic) self-legislator -- The constitutionalisation of international law -- Democracy in international law -- International governance by non-state actors -- A concept of (international) law -- Deliberative democracy beyond the state -- Democracy in conditions of global legal pluralism.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-394) and index.