Globalization and popular sovereignty democracy's transnational dilemma /

• Main Author: Lupel, Adam.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Rethinking globalizations ; 20.
• Subjects: Sovereignty.; Globalization > Political aspects.; Representative government and representation.; Globalization.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > National. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.; Electronic books.
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This volume analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty, seeking to better understand the emerging structures of global governance and their potential for democratic legitimacy.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: popular sovereignty and globalization
• Trajectories of popular sovereignty
• The liberal model of popular sovereignty: John Locke
• The republican model of popular sovereignty: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The deliberative model of popular sovereignty: Jürgen Habermas
• Responses to globalization (I) Habermas's postnational constellation
• Responses to globalization (II) David Held's cosmopolitan democracy and global civil society
• Conclusion: towards a transnational politics of popular sovereignty.