Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy

by Bonnie Honig

Book Overview

A more democratic response to political emergencies

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance and centralize top-down forms of sovereignty? Those who oppose executive branch enhancement often turn instead to law, insisting on the sovereignty of the rule of law or demanding that law rather than force be used to resolve conflicts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691152594
• ISBN13: 9780691152592
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"