The Time of Popular Sovereignty : Process and the Democratic State

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Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the people? Democratic political theory has a potentially fatal weakness at its core unless it can answer this...

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Autor principal: Ochoa Espejo, Paulina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park : Penn State University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sovereignty.
Democracy.
Constituent power.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy.
sovereignty.
Souverainete.
Pouvoir constituant.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Time of the People
  • 1. The Mob and the People in Mexico: A Historical Example of the Indeterminacy of Popular Unification
  • 2. A Problem in Liberal Democratic Theory: The Indeterminacy of Popular Unification
  • 3. Mechanical and Teleological Conceptions of the People
  • 4. Dynamic Constitutionalism and Historical Time
  • 5. The People Between Change and Stability
  • 6. Creative Freedom and the People as Process
  • 7. A Democratic People as Process
  • Conclusion: Radical Realism
  • Notes

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