Popular Sovereignty in the West: Polities, contention, and ideas

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The origins of the notion of popular sovereignty in the West
	The Roman notion of lex regia
	The recovery of Aristotelian political theory and the Italian city-republics
	Conciliarism
	Radical political ideas in the sixteenth century
	The significance of the Huguenots
	Locke on sovereignty
2 Ruler sovereignty, popular sovereignty, and state sovereignty
	Bodin, absolutism, and resistance
	Legislative power
	The state
3 The functions of sovereignty
	State sovereignty
	The functions of sovereignty
	Sovereignty and the nature of the governing relationship in the modern state
4 Sovereignty, the people, and the nation
	The idea of the people, ancient and modern
	The modern people and the idea of the nation
	The people as a single-statuscommunity
	Is the sovereign people a fiction?
5 Popular sovereignty, contention, and democratization
	Popular sovereignty in the making: the development of mass national politics in Britain
	What can we learn from the British case?
6 Popular sovereignty and plurinational democracies
	Minority nations and self-rule
	Popular sovereignty, the nation, and state-building
	Plurinationalism, heterogeneity, and popular sovereignty
7 Popular sovereignty in the age of globalization
	Globalization, political power, and the public sphere
	A ‘fragmented tyranny’?
	Globalization, contention, and popular sovereignty
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index