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People power

Popular sovereignty from Machiavelli to modernity

Edited by Robert Ingram and Christopher Barker

People power
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  • ISBN: 9781526165640
  • Publish Date: Jul 2022
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    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 288
    • Price: £90.00
    • Published Date: July 2022

    Description

    People power explores the history of the theory and practice of popular power. Western thinking about politics has two fundamental features: 1) popular power in practice is problematic and 2) nothing confers political legitimacy except popular sovereignty. This book explains how we got to our current default position, in which rule of, for and by the people is simultaneously a practical problem and a received truth of politics. The book asks readers to think about how appreciating that history shapes the way we think about the people's power in the present. Drawn from the disciplines of history and political theory, the contributors to this volume engage in a mutually informing conversation about popular power. They conclude that the problems that first gave rise to popular sovereignty remain simultaneously compelling, unresolved and worthy of further attention.

    Contents

    1 People power - Christopher Barker and Robert G. Ingram
    2 Machiavelli's 'moments' - Catherine Zuckert
    3 Death and taxes in Machiavelli's Florentine state - Danielle Charette
    4 Taming the Parliament: John Locke on legislative limits, prerogative and popular sovereignty - Nathan Pinkoski
    5 Montesquieu and the theory of limited sovereignty - William Selinger
    6 The revolution for society: rethinking popular sovereignty, American independence and the Age of the Democratic Revolution - James M. Vaughn
    7 Filippo Mazzei's Atlantic revolutions: a new dawn for popular sovereignty or populism? - Anna Vincenzi
    8 Popular sovereignty as populism in the early American republic - Joshua A. Lynn
    9 Like a god on Earth: popular sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America - Heather Pangle Wilford
    10 Plural voting and popular government in Victorian Britain - Greg Conti
    11 Modern representation and the popular will - Susan Shell and Paul T. Wilford
    12 Sovereignty, God and the historians - Robert G. Ingram
    13 Conclusion: what is popular sovereignty? - Mark Blitz
    Index

    Editors

    Robert G. Ingram is Professor of History and Director of the Menard Family George Washington Forum at Ohio University

    Christopher Barker is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo

    People power

    Edited by Robert Ingram, Christopher Barker

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