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100	1		_aBohman, James
245	1	0	_aDemocracy across borders : _bfrom Dêmos to Dêmoi / _cJames Bohman
264			_aLONDON _bTHE MIT PRESS _c2007
300			_aviii, 219 pages ;
490	1		_aStudies in contemporary German social thought
520	1		_a"Today democracy is both exalted as the "best means to realize human rights" and seen as weakened because of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state. In this book, James Bohman argues that democracies face a period of renewal and transformation and that democracy itself needs redefinition according to a new transnational ideal. Democracy, he writes, should be rethought in the plural; it should no longer be understood as rule by the people (demos), singular, with a specific territorial identification and connotation, but as rule by peoples (demoi), across national boundaries. Bohman shows that this new conception of transnational democracy requires reexamination of such fundamental ideas as the people, the public, citizenship, human rights, and federalism, and he argues that it offers a feasible approach to realizing democracy in a globalized world."--Jacket
650		0	_aDemocracy
650		0	_aRegionalism (International organization)
650		0	_aWorld citizenship
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