{"product_id":"twilight-of-the-american-state-9780472039265","title":"Twilight of the American State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke, an aberration. But time showed it was not a fluke, but the rise of a movement. How did this happen? This book offers a sweeping exploration of the role played by law and legal institutions in preparing the grounds for this rebellious movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pierre Schlag’s essay describes the development—or degeneration—of the American state from one animated by the principles of liberal democracy through the administered state to neoliberalism and now what he calls the dissociative state. Each state form generates tensions that it is unable to resolve, leaving us today facing the possibility that the authoritarian impulses that have grown out of frustration with the state’s failures will come to control a new state form. Schlag tells us that understanding how we got to where we are is the precondition for doing something about it, though he forgoes prescribing simple remedies. This is a bracing and—alas—somewhat depressing account of American constitutionalism today.” —Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School\u003cp\u003e“This book is intentionally radical, and it makes an exciting and cutting-edge contribution in the fields of legal and political theory and history. It is beautifully written. Its intellectual contributions are major. Its distinctive voice is simultaneously personal, charming, and haunting. In short: it reads like Pierre Schlag.” —Mitchel Lasser, Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies, Cornell Law School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Charts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Foreword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I. Distraction and Catastrophe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e II. The Liberal Democratic State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e III. The Administered State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e IV. The Neoliberal State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e V. The Dissociative State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e VI. The Authoritarian Temptation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e VII. The Contest of Diagnoses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Coda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes on Method\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037088579927,"sku":"9780472039265","price":19.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472039265.jpg?v=1750934354","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/twilight-of-the-american-state-9780472039265","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}