People Power Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity
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People power offers an exciting new account of popular sovereignty. ‘We the people’ is a phrase that confers instant political legitimacy in the public imagination, no matter what the political project. But who are the people? How did they come into being? Should they be sovereign? And what does it mean to be sovereign? These are perennial questions in self-governing societies, and they have been given fresh urgency during a long moment of unease about the people’s power.
This book tells the story of the people’s rise in political power and offers a new interpretation of popular sovereignty and its limits. Contributors reconsider crucial thinkers such as Machiavelli, Locke, Tocqueville and Mill and reassess moments of popular power in republican Florence, the American Revolution and Jacksonian democracy. They offer original insights into central issues of popular power, including tax powers, executive leadership, voters’ competence and the limits of religious authority. Ultimately, the book argues that the best way to vindicate the people’s power is to be as attentive to the possible areas of popular overreach and oligarchic substitution as to the claim to power itself.
People power will be required reading for students and scholars of popular sovereignty and of special interest in an era of popular mobilisation and political unrest.
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 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.
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