Jackson provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of sovereignty. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the US Declaration of Independence to 9/11, he shows how sovereignty operates in our daily lives and analyses the issues raised by its u…
As recently as the mid-2000s, Catalonia was described and analysed by scholars as exhibiting a non-secessionist nationalism and was seen within Europe and beyond as a role model for successful devolution which had much to teach other parts of the world. The Spanish state seemed …
This ground-breaking study sets out to clarify one of the most influential but least studied of all political concepts. Despite continual talk of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people has been neglected by political theorists. Margaret Canovan argues that it deserves serio…
"Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' as ha…
