This collection focuses on the particular nexus of popular sovereignty and constitutional change, and the implications of the recent surge in populism for syste

Sovereignty, originally the figure of 'sovereign', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.

Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from "the people" - is the cardinal doctrine of mode

"Examines the concept of the people and the problems it raises for liberal democratic theory, constitutional theory, and critical theory. Argues that the people

A path-breaking critical analysis of the meaning and interpretation of the German constitution in the Weimar years (1919-1933).