Volkssouveränität und Staatlichkeit

Is popular sovereignty still a valid concept? The academic literature in this respect often attempts to address the idea of democratic self-legislation or to even declare it obsolete due to constitutionalism and supranationality. The aim of this edited volume, however, is to ‘save’ popular sovereignty as the normative basis of democracy. To this end, the editors and authors free the idea of popular sovereignty spatially from the outdated dichotomy of nation-state versus supranationality on the one hand. And on the other, the contributions connect to older and more recent debates on intermediary organisations as institutions of democratic self-legislation in the 21st century.
With contributions by
Dagmar Comtesse, Oliver Eberl, Philipp Erbentraut, Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Dirk Jörke, Anna Meine, Martin Morlok, Sandra Seubert, Ulrich Thiele, Inés Valdez and Fabio Wolkenstein.