Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective

Herausgeber: Bourke, Richard; Skinner, Quentin

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Produktbeschreibung

The first collaborative volume to explore popular sovereignty, a pivotal concept in the history of political thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781107571396
• ISBN-10: 1107571391
• Artikelnr.: 48208156

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Richard Bourke; 1. Athenian democracy and popular tyranny
Kinch Hoekstra; 2. Popular sovereignty as control of officeholders:
Aristotle on Greek democracy Melissa Lane; 3. Popular sovereignty in the
late Roman republic: Cicero and the will of the people Valentina Arena; 4.
Popolo and law: late medieval sovereignty in Marsilius and the jurists
Serena Ferente; 5. Democratic sovereignty and democratic government: the
sleeping sovereign Richard Tuck; 6. Parliamentary sovereignty, popular
sovereignty, and Henry Parker's adjudicative standpoint Alan Cromartie; 7.
Popular sovereignty and representation in the English Civil War Lorenzo
Sabbadini; 8. Prerogative, popular sovereignty, and the American founding
Eric Nelson; 9. Popular sovereignty and political representation: Edmund
Burke in the context of eighteenth-century thought Richard Bourke; 10. From
popular sovereignty to civil society in post-revolutionary France Bryan
Garsten; 11. Popular sovereignty as state theory in the nineteenth century
Duncan Kelly; 12. Popular sovereignty and anticolonialism Karuna Mantena;
13. Popular sovereignty in an age of mass democracy: politics, parliament,
and parties in Weber, Kelsen, Schmitt and beyond Timothy Stanton;
Bibliography; Index.