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Popular Sovereignty in the West : Polities, Contention, and Ideas.
This book is an inquiry into the history of the idea of popular sovereignty as it has been shaped by the struggles between rulers and ruled. It builds on the notion that a thorough analysis of how the idea of popular sovereignty emerges from, and interacts with, a political history of contention wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge innovations in political theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The origins of the notion of popular sovereignty in the West; The Roman notion of lex regia; The recovery of Aristotelian political theory and the Italian city-republics; Conciliarism; Radical political ideas in the sixteenth century; The significance of the Huguenots; Locke on sovereignty; 2 Ruler sovereignty, popular sovereignty, and state sovereignty; Bodin, absolutism, and resistance; Legislative power; The state; 3 The functions of sovereignty; State sovereignty; The functions of sovereignty
- Sovereignty and the nature of the governing relationship in the modern state4 Sovereignty, the people, and the nation; The idea of the people, ancient and modern; The modern people and the idea of the nation; The people as a single-statuscommunity; Is the sovereign people a fiction?; 5 Popular sovereignty, contention, and democratization; Popular sovereignty in the making: the development of mass national politics in Britain; What can we learn from the British case?; 6 Popular sovereignty and plurinational democracies; Minority nations and self-rule
- Popular sovereignty, the nation, and state-buildingPlurinationalism, heterogeneity, and popular sovereignty; 7 Popular sovereignty in the age of globalization; Globalization, political power, and the public sphere; A 'fragmented tyranny'?; Globalization, contention, and popular sovereignty; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index