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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Assistant Professor, Haverford College)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780271037974ISBN 10: 0271037970 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 15 June 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Time of the People 1. The Mob and the People in Mexico: A Historical Example of the Indeterminacy of Popular Unification 2. A Problem in Liberal Democratic Theory: The Indeterminacy of Popular Unification 3. Mechanical and Teleological Conceptions of the People 4. Dynamic Constitutionalism and Historical Time 5. The People Between Change and Stability 6. Creative Freedom and the People as Process 7. A Democratic People as Process Conclusion: Radical Realism Bibliography IndexReviewsHow can 'the people' govern when they are always changing and most of them never meet? By depicting 'the people' as ever in process, Paulina Ochoa Espejo provides fresh answers to some of the most perplexing problems of modern democratic theory. An important and stimulating contribution. --Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania If the paradox of political founding is an enduring one, we would do well to look for alternative formulations that do not pretend to resolve it but that show us what politics can be in the light of its ineliminability. Paulina Ochoa Espejo does precisely this by conceiving the democratic people as a process rather than an association, its members as relational events rather than discrete individuals, interacting and changing creatively through time. Mainstream democratic theorists will be compelled to engage with this work, which shows effectively how their pretensions to legitimate democratic practices continue to rely on fictions they claim to have moved beyond. --Nathan Widder, University of London Author InformationPaulina Ochoa Espejo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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