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The time of popular sovereignty : process and the democratic state / Paulina Ochoa Espejo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ochoa Espejo, Paulina, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sovereignty.
- Constituent power.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 222 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Examines the concept of the people and the problems it raises for liberal democratic theory, constitutional theory, and critical theory. Argues that the people should be conceived not as simply a collection of individuals, but as an ongoing process unfolding in time"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the time of the people
- The mob and the people in Mexico : a historical example of the indeterminacy of popular unification
- A problem in liberal democratic theory : the indeterminacy of popular unification
- Mechanical and teleological conceptions of the people
- A dynamic constitutionalism and historical time
- The people between change and stability
- Creative freedom and the people as process
- A democratic people as process
- Conclusion : radical realism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271053707
- 9780271056791
- 0271056797
- OCLC:
- 1158229318
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