Emergency politics : paradox, law, democracy / Bonnie Honig.

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 t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Honig, Bonnie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Surviving; Chapter One: Beginnings; Chapter Two: Emergence; Chapter Three: Decision; Chapter Four: Orientation; Chapter Five: Proximity; Aftermath; Notes; Bibliography; Index.