offen am 26.11.2013, von 18:00 bis 20:00

We the People: On Populism and Democracy II

workshop diskussion vortrag
organisiert von: IWM - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Location: IWM Bibliothek, 1090 Wien, Spittelauer Lände 3
Url: http://www.iwm.at/events/event/we-the-people-on-populism-and-democracy-2/

Intrusions of the People: Ideals of Popular Sovereignty in History

This lecture will examine how Europeans in particular have imagined people-making: what constitutes a people, how a people can act in history, and what it takes to preserve regimes that claim to instantiate popular rule. A long story of how continental Europeans became disenchanted with ideals of popular sovereignty will emerge – a development which in many ways has left Europe’s democracies more vulnerable to populist attacks. This story will also be explicitly tied to the European Union.