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The people / Margaret Canovan.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Key conceptsPublication details: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.Description: viii, 161 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780745628226 (pbk.)
  • 0745628222 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.15
LOC classification:
  • JC 327 C227p 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Identifying the People. The Sovereign People in Action and in Myth. 2. 'The People' and its Past. Prelude in Rome: The People in Action. The People in Reserve: From Shadow to Substance. Civil War to American Revolution: the English People in Rebellion. We the People: The American Revolution and its Significance. Popular Sovereignty and Parliamentary Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Popular Government and the People. 3. Ourselves and Others: People, Nation and Humanity. People and Nation. People-building. Peoples and People. 4. Part and Whole: People, Populism and Democracy. The Common People. Populism in Contemporary Liberal Democracies. Identifying Populism. Populism, Democracy and the People. 5. We the Sovereign People. Can Popular Sovereignty be Understood?. Can Popular Sovereignty be Exercised?. 6. Myths of the Sovereign People. Myths of the People. the People as a Fiction. The People as Myth and Political Reality. 7. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.
Summary: This groundbreaking study sets out to clarify one of the most influential but least studied of all political concepts. Despite continual talk of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people has been neglected by political theorists who have been deterred by its vagueness.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [146]-158) and index.

Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Identifying the People. The Sovereign People in Action and in Myth. 2. 'The People' and its Past. Prelude in Rome: The People in Action. The People in Reserve: From Shadow to Substance. Civil War to American Revolution: the English People in Rebellion. We the People: The American Revolution and its Significance. Popular Sovereignty and Parliamentary Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Popular Government and the People. 3. Ourselves and Others: People, Nation and Humanity. People and Nation. People-building. Peoples and People. 4. Part and Whole: People, Populism and Democracy. The Common People. Populism in Contemporary Liberal Democracies. Identifying Populism. Populism, Democracy and the People. 5. We the Sovereign People. Can Popular Sovereignty be Understood?. Can Popular Sovereignty be Exercised?. 6. Myths of the Sovereign People. Myths of the People. the People as a Fiction. The People as Myth and Political Reality. 7. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.

This groundbreaking study sets out to clarify one of the most influential but least studied of all political concepts. Despite continual talk of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people has been neglected by political theorists who have been deterred by its vagueness.

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