Constitutional Law and National Pluralism

by Stephen Tierney

Book Overview

This book addresses the constitutional issues, both in theory and in practice, that accompany the existence of national diversity in pluralist democracies. Tierney contends that the democratic plurinational state, characterized by the presence of more than one national group within the State, is a discrete category of multi-level polity which defies the standard classifications of liberal constitutionalism. Building upon this theoretical basis, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199298610
• ISBN13: 9780199298617
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"