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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2016
Print publication year:
2016
Online ISBN:
9781316417782
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316417782
Subjects:
Political Theory, History, Politics and International Relations, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
The Seeley Lectures
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Book description

Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy.

Reviews

'Richard Tuck is justly known for innovative, deeply contextual scholarship that manages to revise our ordinary ways of looking at the history of political thought. His new book does not disappoint. Indeed, I warmly commend it. … offers the reader a commanding metaphor for rethinking how modern democracy was ‘invented'.’

Michael Mosher Source: The Review of Politics

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