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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-203) and indexes.

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; 1: The New Constitutional Question; I. A Crisis in Modern Constitutionalism?; 1. Nation-state constitution versus global constitution; 2. Impulses from constitutional sociology; II. False Premises; 1. Societal constitutionalism as a genuine problem of globalization?; 2. Constitutional emptiness of the transnational?; 3. Reducing transnational governance to political processes?; 4. Reducing the third-party effects of fundamental rights to the states' duties of care?; 5. A unitary, cosmopolitan global constitution?

2: Sectorial Constitutions in the Nation StateI. Societal Institutions under Liberal Constitutionalism; 1. Constitution-free spheres of individual freedom; 2. Autonomous societal orders; II. Totalitarian Societal Constitutions; III. Sub-constitutions in the Welfare State; 1. Historical lessons; 2. Statist societal constitutionalism; 3. Politicization of social sectors; IV. Economic Constitutionalism for the Whole Society; 1. Ordoliberal constitutionalism; 2. Constitutional economics; V. Constitutional Pluralism; 1. Neo-corporatist arrangements; 2. Societal constitutionalism

3: Transnational Constitutional Subjects: Regimes, Organizations, NetworksI. Global Structures; II. Social Constitutionalization by the States?; 1. The UN Charter; 2. Soft law of the states; 3. International public law and global administrative law; III. The Independent Constitutions of Global Institutions; 1. Constitutional fragmentation; 2. Constitutions of international organizations; 3. Regime constitutions; IV. Transnational Regimes as Constitutional Subjects?; 1. Pouvoir constituant/constitué; 2. Collective identity

4: Transnational Constitutional Norms: Functions, Arenas, Processes, StructuresI. Constitutional Functions: Constitutive/Limitative; 1. Self-foundation of social systems; 2. 'Double movement' of global constitutionalism; 3. Self-constraint of growth pressures; 4. 'Capillary constitutions'; 5. Devil and Beelzebub; II. Constitutional Arenas: Internal Differentiation in Social Systems; 1. Spontaneous sphere; 2. Organized-professional sphere; 3. The self-regulatory sphere of the communicative medium; III. Constitutional Processes: Double Reflexivity; 1. Reflexivity of the social system

2. Reflexivity of the legal systemIV. Constitutional Structures: Hybrid Meta-codes; 1. Coding and meta-coding; 2. Hybridity; V. The Politics of Societal Constitutionalism; 1. La politique versus le politique; 2. In the shadow of politics; 3. Internal politics of social subsystems; 5: Transnational Fundamental Rights: Horizontal Effect; I. Fundamental Rights Beyond the Nation State; 1. Extraterritorial effect of national constitutional rights?; 2. Global colère publique; 3. Regime-specific standards of fundamental rights; II. Fundamental Rights Binding 'Private' Transnational Actors

1. Beyond state action

In recent years a series of scandals have challenged the traditional political reliance on public constitutional law and human rights as a safeguard of human well-being. Multinational corporations have violated human rights; private intermediaries in the internet have threatened freedom of opinion, and the global capital markets unleashed catastrophic risks. All of these phenomena call for a response from traditional constitutionalism. Yet it is outside the limits of thenation-state in transnational politics and outside institutionalized politics, in the 'private' sectors of global society tha

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