On Holism, Pluralism, and Democracy: Approaches to Constitutionalism beyond the State

Medical pluralism, equity and holism.

Medical pluralism, equity and holism: these are research issues and perspectives arising in the Swiss Programme for the Evaluation of Complementary Medicine (PEK). This evaluation was commissioned by the Swiss Government in order to provide scientific data on 5 complementary therapies (anthroposophic medicine, homeopathy, neural therapy, phytotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine). The aim o...

Constitutionalism, Legal Pluralism, and International Regimes

The international legal order, although pluralist in structure, is in the process of being constitutionalized. This article supports this claim in several different ways. In the Part L I argue that most accepted understandings of "constitution" would readily apply to at least some international regimes. In Part II, I discuss different notions of "constitutional pluralism," and demonstrate that ...

Islamic Constitutionalism and the Concept of Democracy

Design, Democracy and Agonistic Pluralism

In this paper, the author presents an alternative approach to ‘design for democracy,’ drawing on the notion of agonistic pluralism. Specifically, the author highlights the differences between politics and the political within agonistic pluralism, and employing examples of contemporary design projects, discusses how these differences can been seen in the objects and practices of design. Through ...

Shari’ah, Democracy, and the Modern Nation-State: Some Reflections on Islam, Popular Rule, and Pluralism

In this article, the author examines two considerations that are critical to a full and meaningful assessment of the degree to which Islam, and Islamic law in particular, can find authentic expressions of themselves under what may reasonably be considered a democratic form of government. The first of these has to do with the scope of Islamic law, or more properly, the scope of the interpretive ...