Popular Sovereignty

Project overview

Popular sovereignty is a key normative concept in modern political discourse, underpinning our ideas of legitimacy and democracy, and contributing to the way we conceptualise international order. There currently exists no comprehensive study dedicated to charting the emergence and transformation of this fundamental part of our political heritage.

The aim of this AHRC funded research network is to trace for the first time the complex and controversial career of popular sovereignty across ancient and modern history.

Dr Tim Stanton is a member of the Popular Sovereignty project, which is led by colleagues at The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London.