{"product_id":"the-people-9780745628226","title":"The People","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘“The people” are invoked or assumed by much political theory and practice, yet the concept rarely attracts sustained analysis in its own right. Canovan's study fills this lacuna. As she notes, appeals to “the people” rarely resolve political disputes for all too often disagreement over what “the people” means lies at their heart. Consequently, taking the people seriously proves frustrating for those looking for clear solutions to political problems, but is inescapable for all that.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor Richard Bellamy, Academic Director ECPR, Co-editor CRISPP, Department of Government, University of Essex\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘An immensely useful volume. Canovan does a superb job of transforming “the people” from a cliché into an important object of moral and political analysis.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBernard Yack, Lerman-Neubauer Professor of Democracy, Brandeis University\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Margaret Canovan's \u003ci\u003eThe People\u003c\/i\u003e ... is the place to start for those who work with issues of popular sovereignty and find it difficult to come up with a coherent \"theory\" of the people. Canovan provides an excellent introduction to the tensions and problems involved in the idea of the sovereign people, and does so in a way that speaks both to students and professional scholars ... Canovan is most compelling in describing the tensions involved in the sovereign people. Her analysis is instructive and rich with examples ... Canovan succeeds in the difficult task of making the issue of the sovereign people accessible to a wider audience without downplaying the challenging questions that go with it.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'People from various disciplines will find this book useful, whether they work in politics, political theory, social studies or social philosophy. But this is also an excellent introduction for the layperson who is simply interested in these fields ... Canovan does a superb job'\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitical Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentifying the People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sovereign People in Action and in Myth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. 'The People' and its Past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrelude in Rome: The People in Action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe People in Reserve: From Shadow to Substance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivil War to American Revolution: the English People in Rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe the People: The American Revolution and its Significance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular Sovereignty and Parliamentary Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular Government and the People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Ourselves and Others: People, Nation and Humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople and Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople-building.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeoples and People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Part and Whole: People, Populism and Democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Common People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopulism in Contemporary Liberal Democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentifying Populism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopulism, Democracy and the People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. We the Sovereign People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan Popular Sovereignty be Understood?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan Popular Sovereignty be Exercised?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Myths of the Sovereign People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyths of the People.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe People as a Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe People as Myth and Political Reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037643669847,"sku":"9780745628226","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745628226.jpg?v=1750936645","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-people-9780745628226","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}