Constituent Power Beyond the State: Democratic Agency in Polycentric Polities

ISBN-13: 9781032118321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 182 str.

Geneviève Nootens

Opis

This book tackles the twofold issue of public authority and public autonomy in the modern conception of the political by analysing the notion of constituent power, its function in the modern political apparatus, and debates about its meaning and function in our own context.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The concept of constituent power  2. Constituent power and the modern state  3. A reconfiguration of public authority?  4. Translating constituent power on a supranational or global scal  5. A post-constituent order?  6. Constituent power and "narratives of protest"  7. A new narrative of public authority?

O autorze

Geneviève Nootens is Full Professor of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada. Her research interests are mainly concerned with the redeployment of democratic practices and the diffusion of sovereignty; majority and minority nationalism; and plurinational societies.