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Twilight of the American State

dc.contributor.author Schlag, Pierre
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-04T09:52:04Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-04T09:52:04Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.description Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.12393244, License: CC-BY-NC, Publisher: University of Michigan Press
dc.description.abstract The sudden emergence of the Trump nation surprised nearly everyone, including journalists, pundits, political consultants, and academics. When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke. Yet time showed it was instead the rise of a movement-angry, militant, revanchist, and unabashedly authoritarian. How did this happen? Twilight of the American State offers a sweeping exploration of how law and legal institutions helped prepare the grounds for this rebellious movement. The controversial argument is that, viewed as a legal matter, the American state is not just a liberal democracy, as most Americans believe. Rather, the American state is composed of an uneasy and unstable combination of different versions of the state-liberal democratic, administered, neoliberal, and dissociative. Each of these versions arose through its own law and legal institutions. Each emerged at different times historically. Each was prompted by deficits in the prior versions. Each has survived displacement by succeeding versions. All remain active in the contemporary moment-creating the political-legal dysfunction America confronts today. Pierre Schlag maps out a big picture view of the tribulations of the American state. The book abjures conventional academic frameworks, sets aside prescriptions for quick fixes, dispenses with lamentations about polarization, and bypasses historical celebrations of the American Spirit.
dc.identifier.isbn 9780472903832
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.vlu.edu.vn:443/handle/123456789/6603
dc.language.iso en
dc.subject Political Science
dc.subject American Studies
dc.subject Law
dc.subject History
dc.title Twilight of the American State
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