10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOMOCRACIES»
Discover the use of
nomocracies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nomocracies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
War and Peace in the Law of Islam
Both Christendom and Islamdom, as divine universal nomocracies, assumed that
mankind constituted one community, bound by one law and governed ultimately
by one ruler. Their aim was the proselytization of the whole of mankind.
2
Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350
... characterization of Islamic societies as "nomocracies." However, there are at
least two reasons to qualify this perception. First, the extent to which the a van's
cultivation of law distinguished Islamic societies from others is at least debatable.
Michael Chamberlain, 2002
3
Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and his Surroundings
Nomocracies are social constructs just as much as teleocracies are.27 In contrast
, conviviality is an objective condition of interaction. Like its opposite or negation,
which is war (disorder or confusion in, or a breakdown of, convivial relations), ...
Professor Hardy Bouillon, Professor Hartmut Kliemt, 2012
The "modern" regimes had been devised to tie down the active power, they were
pictured as nomocracies where the law, made independently of the active power,
prescribed and circumscribed its operations. Quite different must be telocracies ...
Bertrand De Jouvenel, Dennis Hale, Marc Landy, 1992
5
The Problem of Democracy
(Ed.) 40 In this respect, one might draw a contrast between 'nomocracies' (in
which law is supreme) and 'telocracies' (in which goals are supreme). The latter
strictly depend on political will and, more generally, on the 'constructivism' Hayek
...
6
When Worlds Collide: Exploring the Ideological and Political ...
... as "Divine nomocracies," they presumed that mankind constituted one
community bound by one legal code which, through proselytizing, was ultimately
destined to constitute one community, bound by a common law and ruled by a
common ...
7
Practical project management: restoring quality to DP ...
They constitute oppressive standards nomocracies (societies governed
principally by laws and lawyers). Project members in standards nomocracies
spend much of their time in expensive litigation with the ominous Standards
Enforcement ...
8
Partitioned Africans: Ethnic Relations Across Africa's ...
Non-Muslims have been forced to flee from Islamic nomocracies for fear of being
victimised by uncompromising Muslims. Others, like Jakhanke pacifist Muslims,
have fled their areas of provenance on account of their eschewing violence and ...
9
Sovereignty, Islamic and Modern: Conception of Sovereignty ...
As the Israelite, Christian and Islamic states were based on divine legal orders, it
follows that their system might be called Divine Nomocracies. .(p. 17). Why not
Khilafat for Divine Nomocracy as state If this be so, why not call the Islamic state ...
10
Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies
Bertrand de Jouvenel distinguishes "telocracies", systems of government devoted
to the pursuit of particular goals, and "nomocracies", characterized above all by
the respect for the rule of law and individual freedom. With regard to the ...
