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The Time of Popular Sovereignty : Process and the Democratic State /

"Examines the concept of the people and the problems it raises for liberal democratic theory, constitutional theory, and critical theory. Argues that the people should be conceived not as simply a collection of individuals, but as an ongoing process unfolding in time"--Provided by publishe...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ochoa Espejo, Paulina, 1974-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : the time of the people
  • The mob and the people in Mexico : a historical example of the indeterminacy of popular unification
  • A problem in liberal democratic theory : the indeterminacy of popular unification
  • Mechanical and teleological conceptions of the people
  • A dynamic constitutionalism and historical time
  • The people between change and stability
  • Creative freedom and the people as process
  • A democratic people as process
  • Conclusion : radical realism.