Sleeping sovereign the invention of modern democracy

By:

Tuck, Richard, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Seeley lecturesPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015ISBN:

9781107570580

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

JC423 .T76 2015

Other classification:

POL010000

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Jean Bodin; 2. Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf; 3. The eighteenth century; 4. America; Conclusion; Index.

Summary: "Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy"--

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library	General Books	321.8 TU-S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		134055

Browsing OPJGU Sonepat- Campus shelves, Collection: General Books Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous			No cover image available					Next
Previous	321.8 TA-P Politics of neoliberal democracy in Africa state and civil society in Nigeria	321.8 TA-R Reconstructing democracy how citizens are building from the ground up	321.8 TU-O Obligation and the body politic	321.8 TU-S Sleeping sovereign the invention of modern democracy	321.8 TW- Twenty first century globalization perspectives from the Gulf	321.8 UN-D Democracy realized the progressive alternative	321.8 VI-D Democracy and dissent the challenge of international rule making	Next

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Jean Bodin; 2. Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf; 3. The eighteenth century; 4. America; Conclusion; Index.

"Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy"--

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.