@inbook{e5d4ba14b370460eb57ac1a3ae6cdb66,
title = "The Nation as 'The Public': The Resilient Functionalism of Public Law",
abstract = "This chapter focuses on the {\textquoteleft}resilient functionalism{\textquoteright} of public law in continuing to support the important relationship between the nation and the state. It begins by outlining the functionalism of public law in its broadest sense, tracing its historical development as a discrete subject. Secondly, it explores further how public law's primary role in the modern era has been to facilitate the relationship between national identity and the state. And thirdly, it offers empirical evidence to defend the {\textquoteleft}resilience thesis{\textquoteright} and the ongoing importance of public law as facilitator of the continuing, albeit changing, relationship, between nation, national identity, and state.",
keywords = "public law, privatization, globalization, nation, nation-state, national identity, nationalism, state, post-national, resilient functionalism",
author = "Stephen Tierney",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669318.003.0008",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780199669318",
series = "Oxford Constitutional Theory",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "151--67",
editor = "{Mac Amhlaigh}, Cormac and Claudio Michelon and Neil Walker",
booktitle = "After Public Law",
}