TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tierney,Stephen
TI  - Constitutional law and national pluralism
SN  - 0199298610
U1  - 342 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - Oxford University Press, USA
KW  - Constitution: government & the state
KW  - Constitutional & administrative law
KW  - Ethnic studies
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Scots law: constitutional & administrative law
KW  - Law
KW  - Legal Reference / Law Profession
KW  - Constitutional
KW  - Law / Constitutional
KW  - Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism
KW  - Political Ideologies - Nationalism
KW  - National Law: Professional
N1  - This book addresses the constitutional issues, both in theory and in practice, that accompany the existence of national diversity in pluralist democracies. Tierney contends that the democratic plurinational state, characterized by the presence of more than one national group within the State, is a discrete category of multi-level polity which defies the standard classifications of liberal constitutionalism. Building upon this theoretical basis, the book focuses upon recent developments toward the institutional accommodation of Catalonia, Quebec, and Scotland. Tierney examines the legal issues which arise from the challenges posed by sub-state nations within multinational democracies to the constitutional and institutional structures of particular States, and also to some of the fundamental precepts of democratic constitutional theory and practice
ER  -