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Sovereignty and Representation
Author(s) -
Wintgens Luc J.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9337.00182
Subject(s) - sovereignty , representation (politics) , democracy , relation (database) , popular sovereignty , political science , epistemology , law and economics , sociology , law , computer science , philosophy , politics , data mining
In this contribution the author explores some aspects of the relation between sovereignty, democracy and representation. After shortly focusing on the idea of sovereignty, he then questions Rousseau's refusal to take representation into account within a democratic framework, an idea that is however latent in his general approach.