%0 Journal Article
%T Agents of Popular Sovereignty
%A Fabio Wolkenstein
%J Political Theory
%@ 1552-7476
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0090591718786232
%X Popular sovereignty requires that citizens perceive themselves as being able to act and implement decisions, and that they are de facto causally connected to mechanisms of decision making. I argue that the two most common understandings of the exercise of popular sovereignty¡ªwhich center on direct decision making by the people as a whole and the indirect exercise of democratic agency by elected representatives, respectively¡ªare inadequate in this respect, and go on to suggest a complementary account that stresses the central role of internally democratic and participatory political parties in actualising popular sovereignty, drawing on the democratic theory of Hans Kelsen
%K popular sovereignty
%K political parties
%K Hans Kelsen
%K the people
%K intra-party democracy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0090591718786232