By Antje Wiener
As social practices now often expand past nationwide limitations, reports and expectancies approximately reasonable and bonafide politics became more and more fragmented. Our skill to appreciate and interpret others and to tolerate distinction, instead of triumph over range, is for that reason in danger. This booklet makes a speciality of the contested meanings of norms in a global of accelerating foreign encounters. the writer argues that cultural practices are much less seen than organisational practices, yet are constitutive for politics and want to be understood and empirically 'accounted' for. evaluating 4 elite teams in Europe, Antje Wiener exhibits how this invisible structure of politics concerns. through evaluating person interpretations of norms akin to democracy and human rights, she exhibits how they could suggest various things, even to often traveling elite teams.
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Constitutionalism beyond modernity 31 Constitutional quality in Europe: towards a case study This chapter focuses on the analytical aspect of constitutionalism. 20 Instead, the purpose is to lay out a framework for empirical research that is able to grapple with the perception, recognition and validation of modern constitutional norms under conditions of transnationalisation. I return to the normative issue in the conclusive chapter 9 for a critical discussion of democratic constitutionalism and its potential for survival in a context of governance beyond the state.
Subsequently ‘constituents’ are always in danger of being considered as mere ‘norm-followers’. This is of particular importance for studies of compliance with ‘basic procedural norms’ which are the substance of international treaties (Jackson 2005). Constitutionalism beyond modernity 27 of transnationalisation, these conditions differ, however, as the boundaries of a community are not permanent but in flux. Subsequently, the addressees of the constitutional arrangement cannot be assumed to be stable.
What role they play in molding decisions’ (Kratochwil 1989: 4; my emphasis). The dual quality of norms 39 marks a rather significant conceptual difference with potentially interesting consequences for politics and policy towards legitimate governance beyond the state. By illuminating the conceptual differences, I highlight the distinct impact of norms on international politics, more generally. To that end, I address the question of how normative meanings that have been generated in transnational arenas, say during treaty negotiations, change during the transfer from the transnational to the domestic political arena.