The PeopleISBN: 978-0-7456-2822-6
Paperback
176 pages
September 2005, Polity
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Professor Richard Bellamy, Academic Director ECPR, Co-editor
CRISPP, Department of Government, University of Essex
‘An immensely useful volume. Canovan does a superb job of
transforming “the people” from a cliché into an
important object of moral and political analysis.’
Bernard Yack, Lerman-Neubauer Professor of Democracy, Brandeis
University
'Margaret Canovan's The People ... is the place to start
for those who work with issues of popular sovereignty and find it
difficult to come up with a coherent "theory" of the people.
Canovan provides an excellent introduction to the tensions and
problems involved in the idea of the sovereign people, and does so
in a way that speaks both to students and professional scholars ...
Canovan is most compelling in describing the tensions involved in
the sovereign people. Her analysis is instructive and rich with
examples ... Canovan succeeds in the difficult task of making the
issue of the sovereign people accessible to a wider audience
without downplaying the challenging questions that go with
it.'
Political Theory
'People from various disciplines will find this book useful,
whether they work in politics, political theory, social studies or
social philosophy. But this is also an excellent introduction for
the layperson who is simply interested in these fields ... Canovan
does a superb job'
Political Studies Review