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From Divine to Popular Sovereignty: The Civil Shift in Contemporary Islamic Political Thought
ReligionsFor various religious and political reasons, the idea of divine sovereignty (ḥākimiyya) has found support in many Islamic movements and discourses between the 1940s and the 1980s throughout the Muslim world.
Abdessamad Belhaj
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Cuba : un hackerspace à ciel ouvert ?
Terminal, 2022 This article focuses on understanding the politics of technological sovereignty in the informatics field in Cuba. Studying this form of “national sovereignty” needs to consider the oscillation movement between popular and state levels, without being ...
Natalia Calderón Beltrán
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Popular Sovereignty in Political Thought of WEST and Islam; “Democratic System” and “Shari’a Based System in Iranian Constitution” [PDF]
پژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2016 Popular sovereignty in western political thought, which manifests in a democratic system, begins by identifying the individual as an end. In this school of thought, on one hand, a person has a separate individuality from society and government and is ...
alireza dabirnia, Tayebe Asadabadi
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Popular Sovereignty, Islam, and Democracy
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2003 This article examines the idea that Islam’s rejection of popular sovereignty makes it incompatible with democracy. I show instead that sovereignty (“absolute despotic power,” popular or otherwise) is a sterile, pedantic, abstruse, formalistic, and ...
Glenn E. Perry
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Political Sovereignty and Its Enemies
Athena, 2021 The aim of the essay is to discuss the concept and the value of political sovereignty and those to describe its enemies. According to the theorists of the modern state, two concurring aspects identify political sovereignty: a process of ...
Andrea Morrone
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Agents of Popular Sovereignty [PDF]
Political Theory, 2018 Popular sovereignty requires that citizens perceive themselves as being able to act and implement decisions, and that they are de facto causally connected to mechanisms of decision making. I argue that the two most common understandings of the exercise of popular sovereignty—which center on direct decision making by the people as a whole and the ...
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The Self-Defeating Notion of the Sovereign Subject in US Gun Culture
Lateral, 2020 The politicization of US gun culture since the 1970s has popularized the idea that individual freedom and security is dependent upon the reclamation of traditionally defined sovereign powers.
Chad Kautzer
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Kosovo and the Evolution of State Sovereignty
Refuge, 1999 The author argues that NATO's intervention in response to the Yugoslav government's repression in Kosovo may accelerate theinternational community's acceptance of the liberal-democratic nation of popular sovereignty over the Westphalian notion of state ...
Gary Schaub, Jr
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Popular referendum and its impact on the sovereignty of the people [PDF]
الرافدین للحقوق, 2013 The popular referendum is one of the most important manifestations of almost direct democracy, and one of the most serious ones through which the people can express their will and exercise their political freedom so that they can exercise their effective
Laith Thanoon
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 In the article the author is dealing with Benjamin de Constant’s assumptions that the core “idea of 1789“ was „reasonable liberty“, that there was a „natural tendency“ of the French people at that time to demand such liberty and that it was later, in the
Aleksandar Molnar
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