The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State PDF
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T HE T IM E O F P O P UL A R S O V E R EI G N T Y process and the democratic state PAULINA OCHOA ESPEJO THE TIME OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY PAULINA OCHOA ESPEJO THE TIME OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY Process and the Democratic State The Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, Pennsylvania Allforeign-languagetranslationsarebythe authorunlessotherwiseindicated. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData OchoaEspejo,Paulina,1974– Thetimeofpopularsovereignty:processandthe democraticstate/PaulinaOchoaEspejo. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Summary:‘‘Examinestheconceptofthepeopleandthe problemsitraisesforliberaldemocratictheory, constitutionaltheory,andcriticaltheory.Arguesthat thepeopleshouldbeconceivednotassimplya collectionofindividuals,butasanongoingprocess unfoldingintime’’—Providedbypublisher. isbn978-0-271-03796-7(cloth:alk.paper) 1. Constituentpower. 2. Sovereignty. 3. Democracy. I.Title. jc330.o28 2011 320.1(cid:2)5—dc22 2010044098 Copyright(cid:2)2011ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica PublishedbyThePennsylvaniaStateUniversityPress, UniversityPark,PA16802-1003 ItisthepolicyofThePennsylvaniaStateUniversityPress touseacid-freepaper.Publicationsonuncoatedstock satisfytheminimumrequirementsofAmericanNational StandardforInformationSciences—PermanenceofPaper forPrintedLibraryMaterial,ansiz39.48-1992. ThisbookisprintedonNaturesNatural,which contains50%post-consumerwaste. TOTom CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction:TheTimeofthePeople 1 1 TheMobandthePeopleinMexico:AHistoricalExampleofthe IndeterminacyofPopularUnification 16 2 AProbleminLiberalDemocraticTheory:TheIndeterminacyofPopular Unification 27 3 MechanicalandTeleologicalConceptionsofthePeople 58 4 DynamicConstitutionalismandHistoricalTime 84 5 ThePeopleBetweenChangeandStability 113 6 CreativeFreedomandthePeopleasProcess 136 7 ADemocraticPeopleasProcess 170 Conclusion:RadicalRealism 196 Bibliography 202 Index 213 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Over the yearsI have received institutional support formy research from El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog´ıa (CONACYT), the Institute of International Education, Johns Hopkins University, and the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame. I am particularly grateful to YaleUniversity’sDepartmentofPoliticalScienceforgrantingmeajunior sabbaticalleave,andtotheDivisio´ndeEstudiosPol´ıticosoftheCentrode Investigacio´n y Docencia Econo´micas (CIDE) for hosting me during the 2009–10 academic year. The book was published with the assistance of theFrederickW.HillesPublicationFundofYaleUniversity. I thank those who helped me finish this project. My first intellectual debt is to my teachers at Johns Hopkins: Jane Bennett, Jennifer Culbert, Dick Flathman, Mimi Keck, Hent de Vries, and especially Bill Connolly, who helped me understand the relevance of the problem at hand and encouragedmetodealwithitcreatively.Ialsothankthosefellowstudents andfriendswhocommentedonspecificpartsofthemanuscript:Riccardo Pelizzo, Matt Scherer, Mina Suk, and particularly Lars Tønder. They, together with all the other members of the political theory community at Hopkins, have been a constant source of intellectual stimulation over the years. AtNotreDameIhadmuchhelpandencouragementfromthe2005–6 fellowsattheErasmusInstitute,andparticularlyfromtheinstitute’sdirec- tor, Robert Sullivan, and from the Department of Political Science, Fred Dallmayr,CatherineZuckert,MichaelZuckert,VittorioHoesle,andespe- cially Ruth Abbey.At Yale, I thank my colleaguesBruce Ackerman, Seyla Benhabib, Bryan Garsten, Stathis Kalyvas, Karuna Mantena, Andrew March, Ian Shapiro, Steven Smith, Sue Stokes, and Libby Wood. I also thankthestudentsinagraduateseminaron‘‘ThePeople’’fortheirreflec- tionsandcriticalcommentsonsomeoftheideasthatIdevelophere,and Tom Donahue for giving me permission to use parts of our cowritten paper‘‘WhatIsaPeople?’’
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