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The dark side of democracy popular sovereignty, decolonisation and dictatorship
Političke Perspektive, 2022 This paper argues that we must look to the politics of popular sovereignty, and in particular its unfolding in the period after the Second World War, for the origin of the postcolonial condition, its specific vulgarity and temporality. Following ...
Ivor Chipkin
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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 Uses of Ambiguity : Representing the "People" and the Stability of States Unions [PDF]
, 2013 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Andrew Glencross +24 more
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We the People: Each and Every One [PDF]
, 2014 In his book series, We the People, Bruce Ackerman offers a rich description of how constitutional law comes to be changed by social movements. He also makes some normative claims about “popular sovereignty,” “popular consent,” “higher law,” and “higher ...
Barnett, Randy E
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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TOWARDS AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS OF DIRECT POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN CUBA [PDF]
Ra Ximhai, 2010 The Cuban Socialist Constitution of 1976, it’s the result of a revolutionary participative process genuinely popular, and therefore provides, among its basic principles, the popular sovereignty of popular direct exercise.
Orestes Rodríguez Musa
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Review of Democracy as Popular Sovereignty by Filimon Peonidis (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013)
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2014 Review of Democracy as Popular Sovereignty by Filimon Peonidis (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013).
David W. McIvor
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2018 Analyses of the Spanish mobilization cycle between 2011 and 2013 concur with considering the critiques of corruption (and the growing discredit of traditional parties), one of the two key factors that has been determining in the emergence of the 15-M ...
Loris Caruso
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The People or the State?: Chisholm v. Georgia and Popular Sovereignty [PDF]
, 2007 Chisholm v. Georgia was the first great constitutional case decided by the Supreme Court. In Chisholm, the Court addressed the fundamental question: Who is Sovereign? The People or the State? It adopted an individual concept of popular sovereignty rather
Barnett, Randy E.
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