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Combining international political theory and EU studies, Richard Bellamy provides an original account of the democratic legitimacy of international organisations. He proposes a new interpretation of the EU's democratic failings and how they might be addressed. Drawing on the republican theory of freedom as non-domination, Bellamy proposes a way to combine national popular sovereignty with the pursuit of fair and equitable relations of non-domination among states and their citizens. Applying this approach to the EU, Bellamy shows that its democratic failings lie not with the democratic deficit at the EU level but with a democratic disconnect at the member state level. Rather than shifting democratic authority to the European Parliament, this book argues that the EU needs to reconnect with the different 'demoi' of the member states by empowering national parliaments in the EU policy-making process.

part PART I: DEFINING THE RULE OF LAW -- chapter 1 ON THE MORAL STATUS OF THE RULE OF LAW -- chapter 2 RECONSIDERING THE RULE OF LAW -- chapter 3 THE RULE OF LAW AND ITS VIRTUE * -- chapter 4 Formal and Substantive Conceptions of the Rule of Law: An Analytical Framework -- chapter 5 IS THE RULE OF LAW AN ESSENTIALLY CONTESTED CONCEPT (IN FLORIDA)? -- part PART II: THE RULE OF LAW AND JUDICIAL DISCRETION -- chapter 6 Freedom and the Rule of Law -- chapter 7 JUDICIAL DISCRETION -- chapter 8 THE THIRD THEORY OF LAW -- chapter 9 INCOMPLETELY THEORIZED AGREEMENTS -- chapter 10 Stability and Change in Judicial Decision-Making: INCREMENTALISM OR STARE DECISIS? -- part PART III: THE SEPARATION OF POWERS -- chapter 11 The Political Form of the Constitution: the Separation of Powers, Rights and Representative Democracy -- chapter 12 Separation of Powers and Constitutional Government -- chapter 13 ON SPEAKING SOFTLY AND CARRYING BIG STICKS: NEGLECTED DIMENSIONS OF A REPUBLICATION SEPARATION OF POWERS -- chapter 14 A REVISIONIST VIEW OF THE SEPARATION OF POWERS -- chapter 15 Institutionalizing the Public Interest: The Defense of Deadlock and Beyond -- part PART IV: PARLIAMENTARISM AND FEDERALISM -- chapter 16 THE NEW SEPARATION OF POWERS -- chapter 17 Constitutionalism and the Many Faces of Federalism.

This book explores liberalism's past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. Bellamy engages with theorists of liberalism from J. S. Mill, through T. H. Green, Guido De Ruggiero, Carl Schmitt and Joseph Schumpeter, to F. A. Hayek, John Rawls and Michael Walzer. He contends that the pluralism and complexity of modern societies have undermined liberalism's communitarian and ethical assumptions. Studies of the Poll Tax fiasco in Britain, and of the constitutional dilemmas posed by the European Union confirm the contemporary inadequa

In Liberalism and Pluralism the author explores the challenges conflicting values, interests and identities pose to liberal democracy. Richard Bellamy illustrates his criticism and proposals by reference to such topical issues as the citizens charter, constitutional reform, the Rushdie affair and the development of the European Union.

Klappentext: This textbook provides social science students with an introduction to social and political theory. It asks the questions at the heart of contemporary political debate - why should the individual obey the law? Do people have a right to welfare? Is equality all feminists aim for? What does it mean to be Green? - and explains the meaning of the concepts that we use to answer them. Each chapter discusses a particular concept or theoretical issue. Topics covered include: freedom, citizenship and rights, social justice and equality, constitutionalism and democracy, political obligation, power, violence and revolution, feminism, environmentalism, international relations, and realism and welfare. Referring to current political debates to illustrate their argument, the authors show how people of different political or theoretical persuasions view each of these concepts or issues in often dramatically different (and frequently flawed) ways. They offer original solutions of their own as to how these interpretative disputes might be resolved.