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Concentration or representation : the struggle for popular sovereignty
There is a tension in the notion of popular sovereignty, and the notion of democracy associated with it, that is both older than our terms for these notions themselves and more fundamental than the apparently consensual way we tend to use them today. After a review of the competing conceptions of 'the people' that underlie two very different understandings of democracy, this article will defend what might be called a 'neo-Jacobin' commitment to popular sovereignty, understood as the formulation and imposition of a shared political will. A people's egalitarian capacity to concentrate both its collective intelligence and force, from this perspective, takes priority over concerns about how best to represent the full variety of positions and interests that differentiate and divide a community
Mathematics teaching in French écoles normales primaires, 1830–1848: social and cultural challenges to the training of primary school teachers
The impossible task of replacing a model heir: The death of Ferdinand-Philippe d’Orléans and the ‘new France’
Propaganda e crÃtica social nas cronologias dos almanaques astrológicos durante a Guerra Civil inglesa no século XVII
Italy's various Middle Ages
Questo saggio sottolinea la multivocalit\ue0 del richiamo al Medioevo nell'Italia dell'Ottocento e dei primi decenni del Novecent