Political pluralism and the state [electronic resource] : beyond sovereignty / Marcel Wissenburg.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Sovereignty and the state -- Replies to political pluralization -- From politics to policy -- Citizen and citizenship -- The environment -- The undiscovered polis -- Political pluralization -- New polities, new problems -- Internationalization -- The treaty culture -- Dehierarchization -- The challenges of political pluralization -- Other directions -- The need to interfere -- Authoritative interference -- Politics versus economy: the green battlefield -- Green production -- Payoffs and incentives -- The need for political incentives -- A summary -- Conclusion -- Principles, discord and concord -- Principles and politics -- Objective truth -- The principle of popularity -- Controlled deliberation -- Philosophical and political liberalism -- Conclusion -- Sustainability as a policy telos -- Policy teloi -- Sustainable development: ecology versus environment -- Same telos, different place: liberal versus non-liberal societies -- Perspectives -- Beyond political principles -- Foundational principles -- Beyond the original position: the archpoint -- The restraint principle -- Beyond the archpoint -- Conclusion -- Alexandrism -- Cutting a knot -- Swords, axes and tweezers -- Murder as a political tool -- Torture, threats and the reign of terror -- The enlightened despot -- Proceduralism -- Lottery -- Conclusion -- The new polis -- The peppermill -- The myth of the state -- Conceptions of the polis -- Metropolis -- Conclusion -- Citizenship in the metropolis -- Introduction -- The rise and fall of mass democracy -- The complex concept of representation -- Mass democracy and representation -- Unequal and equal access -- Two futures for substantive representation -- The princes of industry -- Two kinds of proactive citizen -- A political history of the economy -- Social responsibility: fields and questions -- The impossibility of responsibility -- The civic role of enterprise -- Conclusion -- Harmony and political pluralization -- A political history -- Legitimate political pluralization -- Justice.

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