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Negotiating the Power of the People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

Negotiating the Power of the People

Explores the history of the idea of constituent power over five key events, from the French Revolution to the present.

Constituent Power and the Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Constituent Power and the Law

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book examines the relationship between constituent power and the law, and the place of the former in constitutional history, drawing from constitutional theory beyond the Anglo-American sphere, with new material made available for the first time to English readers.

Constituent Power in the European Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Constituent Power in the European Union

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Oxford Constitutional Theory has rapidly established itself as the primary point of reference for theoretical reflections on the growing interest in constitutions and constitutional law in domestic, regional, and global contexts. The majority of the works published in the series are monographs that advance new understandings of their subject But the series aims to provide a forum for further innovation in the field by also including well-conceived edited collections that bring a variety of perspectives and disciplinary approaches to bear on specific themes in constitutional thought and by publishing English translations of leading monographs in constitutional theory that have originally been written in languages other than English. Book jacket.

Sovereignty in Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Sovereignty in Action

Sovereignty, originally the figure of 'sovereign', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.

Parliamentarism, From Burke to Weber
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Parliamentarism, From Burke to Weber

A revisionist interpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political ideas, including novel readings of canonical authors such as Burke and Mill.

We the Mediated People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

We the Mediated People

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - YaleUniversity, 2018) issued under title: We, the mediated people: revolution, inclusion, and unconventional adaptation in post-Cold War South America.

India’s Founding Moment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

India’s Founding Moment

An Economist Best Book of the Year How India’s Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla explores the means India’s founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior clas...

The Democratic Sublime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

The Democratic Sublime

"In a series of articles written for the Neue Rhenische Zeitung in 1850, later published by Friedrich Engels as The Class Struggles in France, Karl Marx looked back on the failed French revolution of 1848 and attempted to explain how the democratic aspirations that inspired the February assault on the July Monarchy-and promised to fulfill the dashed hopes of 1789, 1792, and 1830-also led to its termination in the reactionary popular dictatorship of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Popular sovereignty, which had so often defined the emancipatory visions of two generations of radical activists and thinkers was now not only an obstacle to genuine emancipation, but a plebiscitary source of power for ne...

Parliament the Mirror of the Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

Broken Solidarities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Broken Solidarities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-01-16
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Felix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of the social movement against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. The book observes international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.