Constituent Power: A History - Couverture rigide

Rubinelli, Lucia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 110848543X ISBN 13 : 9781108485432

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

From the French Revolution onwards, constituent power has been a key concept for thinking about the principle of popular power, and how it should be realised through the state and its institutions. Tracing the history of constituent power across five key moments - the French Revolution, nineteenth-century French politics, the Weimar Republic, post-WWII constitutionalism, and political philosophy in the 1960s - Lucia Rubinelli reconstructs and examines the history of the principle. She argues that, at any given time, constituent power offered an alternative understanding of the power of the people to those offered by ideas of sovereignty. Constituent Power: A History also examines how, in turn, these competing understandings of popular power resulted in different institutional structures and reflects on why contemporary political thought is so prone to conflating constituent power with sovereignty.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lucia Rubinelli is Junior Research Fellow in the History of Political Thought at Robinson College, University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 110848543X
• ISBN 13: 9781108485432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 276
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