{"product_id":"people-power-popular-sovereignty-from-machiavelli-to-modernity-9781526165640","title":"People Power: Popular Sovereignty from","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople power \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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 \u003ci\u003eexcept \u003c\/i\u003epopular 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1            People power – Christopher Barker and Robert G. Ingram \u003cbr\u003e2            Machiavelli’s ‘moments’ – Catherine Zuckert \u003cbr\u003e3            Death and taxes in Machiavelli’s Florentine state – Danielle Charette\u003cbr\u003e4            Taming the Parliament: John Locke on legislative limits, prerogative and popular sovereignty – Nathan Pinkoski \u003cbr\u003e5            Montesquieu and the theory of limited sovereignty – William Selinger \u003cbr\u003e6            The revolution for society: rethinking popular sovereignty, American independence and the Age of the Democratic Revolution – James M. Vaughn \u003cbr\u003e7            Filippo Mazzei’s Atlantic revolutions: a new dawn for popular sovereignty or populism? – Anna Vincenzi \u003cbr\u003e8            Popular sovereignty as populism in the early American republic – Joshua A. Lynn \u003cbr\u003e9            Like a god on Earth: popular sovereignty in Tocqueville’s \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in America\u003c\/i\u003e – Heather Pangle Wilford\u003cbr\u003e10          Plural voting and popular government in Victorian Britain – Greg Conti\u003cbr\u003e11           Modern representation and the popular will – Susan Shell and Paul T. Wilford\u003cbr\u003e12          Sovereignty, God and the historians – Robert G. Ingram \u003cbr\u003e13          Conclusion: what is popular sovereignty? – Mark Blitz\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041031946583,"sku":"9781526165640","price":67.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526165640.jpg?v=1750948683","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/people-power-popular-sovereignty-from-machiavelli-to-modernity-9781526165640","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}