Ingram / Unknown / Barker People power

Popular sovereignty from Machiavelli to modernity
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6565-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

This book analyses popular sovereignty, one of the fundamental features of modern politics and history. It critically engages with the key thinkers responsible for creating and criticizing popular sovereignty and covers topics such as war, finance, legislation, revolution, religion and political ideology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Ingram, Robert

Barker, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 People power – Christopher Barker and Robert G. Ingram
2 Machiavelli’s ‘moments’ – Catherine Zuckert
3 Death and taxes in Machiavelli’s Florentine state – Danielle Charette
4 Taming the Parliament: John Locke on legislative limits, prerogative and popular sovereignty – Nathan Pinkoski
5 Montesquieu and the theory of limited sovereignty – William Selinger
6 The revolution for society: rethinking popular sovereignty, American independence and the Age of the Democratic Revolution – James M. Vaughn
7 Filippo Mazzei’s Atlantic revolutions: a new dawn for popular sovereignty or populism? – Anna Vincenzi
8 Popular sovereignty as populism in the early American republic – Joshua A. Lynn
9 Like a god on Earth: popular sovereignty in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America – Heather Pangle Wilford
10 Plural voting and popular government in Victorian Britain – Greg Conti
11 Modern representation and the popular will – Susan Shell and Paul T. Wilford
12 Sovereignty, God and the historians – Robert G. Ingram
13 Conclusion: what is popular sovereignty? – Mark Blitz
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert G. Ingram is Professor of History and Director of the Menard Family George Washington Forum at Ohio University

Christopher Barker is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo