Twilight of the American State
Seiten
2023
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-03926-5 (ISBN)
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-03926-5 (ISBN)
When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke, an aberration. But time showed it was not a fluke, but the rise of a movement. How did this happen? This book offers a sweeping exploration of the role played by law and legal institutions in preparing the grounds for this rebellious movement.
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.
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.
Pierre Schlag is University Distinguished Professor & Byron R. White Professor of Law at the University of Colorado.
List of Charts
Acknowledgments
Foreword
I. Distraction and Catastrophe
II. The Liberal Democratic State
III. The Administered State
IV. The Neoliberal State
V. The Dissociative State
VI. The Authoritarian Temptation
VII. The Contest of Diagnoses
Coda
Notes on Method
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.02.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 tables |
Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 363 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-472-03926-1 / 0472039261 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-03926-5 / 9780472039265 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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