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.

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Yes, you can access People power by Robert Ingram, Christopher Barker, Robert G. Ingram,Christopher Barker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Political History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Manchester University Press

Year

2022

Print ISBN

9781526165640

eBook ISBN

9781526165633

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Political History & Theory

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 People power
2 Machiavelli’s ‘moments’
3 Death and taxes in Machiavelli’s Florentine state
4 Taming the Parliament: John Locke on legislative limits, prerogative and popular sovereignty
5 Montesquieu and the theory of limited sovereignty
6 The revolution for society: rethinking popular sovereignty, American independence and the Age of the Democratic Revolution
7 Filippo Mazzei’s Atlantic revolutions: a new dawn for popular sovereignty or populism?
8 Popular sovereignty as populism in the early American republic
9 Like a god on earth: popular sovereignty in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
10 Plural voting and popular government in Victorian Britain
11 Modern representation and the popular will
12 Sovereignty, God and the historians
13 Conclusion: what is popular sovereignty?
Index

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