The people /
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| Author / Creator: | Canovan, Margaret. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005. |
| Description: | viii, 161 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Key concepts Key concepts (Polity Press) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5782899 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Identifying the People
- The Sovereign People in Action and in Myth
- 2. 'The People' and its Past
- Prelude in Rome: The People in Action
- The People in Reserve: From Shadow to Substance
- Civil War to American Revolution: The English People in Rebellion
- We the People: The American Revolution and its Significance
- Popular Sovereignty and Parliamentary Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Popular Government and the People
- 3. Ourselves and Others: People, Nation and Humanity
- People and Nation
- People-building
- Peoples and People
- 4. Part and Whole: People, Populism and Democracy
- The Common People
- Populism in Contemporary Liberal Democracies
- Identifying Populism
- Populism, Democracy and the People
- 5. We the Sovereign People
- Can Popular Sovereignty be Understood?
- Can Popular Sovereignty be Exercised?
- 6. Myths of the Sovereign People
- Myths of the People
- The People as a Fiction
- The People as Myth and Political reality
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index