The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State

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Democracy is frequently conceived as in line with self-rule or rule by the people, and it’s this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic type of government. But who constitutes the people? Democratic political theory has a potentially fatal weakness at its core unless it may answer this question satisfactorily. In The Time of Popular Sovereignty, Paulina Ochoa Espejo examines the problems the concept that of the people raises for liberal democratic theory, constitutional theory, and critical theory. She argues that to solve these problems, the people can’t be conceived as simply a choice of individuals. Relatively, the people will have to be seen as a series of events, an ongoing process unfolding in time. She then offers a new theory of democratic peoplehood, laying the foundations for a new theory of democratic legitimacy.

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