Time of Popular Sovereignty

Process and the Democratic State

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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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 question satisfactorily. In The Time of Popular Sovereignty, Paulina Ochoa Espejo examines the problems the concept of the people raises for liberal democratic theory, constitutional theory, and critical theory. She argues that to solve these problems, the people cannot be conceived as simply a collection of individuals. Rather, the people should be seen as a series of events, an ongoing process unfolding in time. She then offers a new theory of democratic peoplehood, laying the foundations for a new theory of democratic legitimacy.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-06-15
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271037974

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Time of the People1.The Mob and the People in Mexico: A Historical Example of the Indeterminacy of Popular Unification2.A Problem in Liberal Democratic Theory: The Indeterminacy of Popular Unification3.Mechanical and Teleological Conceptions of the People4.Dynamic Constitutionalism and Historical Time5.The People Between Change and Stability6.Creative Freedom and the People as Process7.A Democratic People as ProcessConclusion: Radical RealismBibliographyIndex

“‘The people’ is both a perennial feature and an enduring problem in our understanding of democracy. In The Time of Popular Sovereignty, Paulina Ochoa Espejo clears away centuries of conceptual clutter, showing a keen awareness of the paradoxes that plague this project. Her solution is refreshing: stop thinking of a democratic people as a goal to be achieved, and start thinking of it as an ongoing process. Her dynamic view of democracy charts exciting terrain in democratic theory and moves our thinking in provocative new directions.”—Kevin Olson, University of California, Irvine