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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Anti-Politics and Democratic Crisis Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Anti-Politics and Democratic Crisis Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Rationalizing the emergency -- Authoritarian and populist temptations -- States of exception and the politics of technology -- Democracy and liberalism: authoritarian, populist, and corporatist challenges -- Notes -- Part I Liberal democracy and the use of exceptional powers -- 1 Carl Schmitt's conception of sovereignty, the UN Security Council, and the instrumentalization of the "state of exception" |
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The UN Security Council's P5 as Schmittian ruler -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Right, might, and technopolitics: The problem of republican dictatorship from James Harrington to James Madison -- Machiavelli's critics -- Harrington's response to Hobbes -- The Dictatorship of Oceana -- Harringtonian nightmares in the Scottish Enlightenment -- James Madison and the state of exception -- Conclusion: republican dictatorship reconsidered -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Exception as alibi: Rhetorics of emergency and bare life in the War on Terror -- Declarations of national emergency |
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Rethinking subjecthood in the state of exception -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Tactics of battle, strategies of state1: Hurricane Katrina and the counterterror exception -- Discourses of criminality and insurgency -- Case study 1: counterinsurgent pacification and Blackwater USA -- Case study 2: counterterror detention at Camp Greyhound -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Exceptional biometrics -- The EU immigration "crisis" -- EU immigration and biometrics -- Externalization as deterrence -- Externalization and biometrics -- Exception and biometrics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Part II The liberal state -- 6 A theory of populist democracy -- Constitutional democracy as the populist alter -- An ambiguous term -- The frame of democratic diarchy -- An inadequate hyphenation -- The populist ambition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The populist right: Anti-liberal politics and conservative temptations -- A "crisis of representation": the tension between populism and democracy -- Historicizing the Right: ideological ambiguities and political practices -- The collaboration between the Radical and Conservative Right -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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8 Public engagement: An outline of a critical conception -- Democratic outcomes and democratic practice -- Deliberative democracy and beyond -- Inclusive decision-making -- Facing the challenges-political agency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Corporatism and economic performance -- Political economy of corporatism -- Corporatism in modern-day economies -- Corporatism and the welfare state -- Corporatism and economic performance -- Corporatism and financial crises -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jóhannesson, Sveinn
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| ISBN |
9781000294088 |
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1000294080 |
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