Paulina Ochoa: 2 books
The Time of Popular Sovereignty
Process and the Democratic State
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the people? Democratic political theory has a potentially fatal weakness at its core unless it can answer this...
The Promise and Perils of Populism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
From the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change. When citizens demand "power to the people,"...