Publication Date:
2024-03-29
Description:
The sudden emergence of the Trump nation surprised nearly everyone, including journalists, pundits, political consultants, and academics. When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke. Yet time showed it was instead the rise of a movement—angry, militant, revanchist, and unabashedly authoritarian.
How did this happen? Twilight of the American State offers a sweeping exploration of how law and legal institutions helped prepare the grounds for this rebellious movement. The controversial argument is that, viewed as a legal matter, the American state is not just a liberal democracy, as most Americans believe. Rather, the American state is composed of an uneasy and unstable combination of different versions of the state—liberal democratic, administered, neoliberal, and dissociative. Each of these versions arose through its own law and legal institutions. Each emerged at different times historically. Each was prompted by deficits in the prior versions. Each has survived displacement by succeeding versions. All remain active in the contemporary moment—creating the political-legal dysfunction America confronts today.
Pierre Schlag maps out a big picture view of the tribulations of the American state. The book abjures conventional academic frameworks, sets aside prescriptions for quick fixes, dispenses with lamentations about polarization, and bypasses historical celebrations of the American Spirit.
Keywords:
Politics and government;Regional, state and other local government;Legal history;History of the Americas
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPR Regional government
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bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAZ Legal history
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bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government
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thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
Language:
English
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