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People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity - Ingram, Robert (Editor), and Barker, Christopher (Editor)
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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 ...

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People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity 2022, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526165640

Hardcover