Terje Rasmussen is a sociologist and professor of media studies at the University of Oslo. Rasmussen’s research interests include political sociology, political theory and political history, including the history of public opinion and the media.
Ny bok: Suverenitet. Historien om folkestyrets og nasjonens idé 1814 - 2024
The Sociology of sovereignty. Politics, social transformations and conceptual change
The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty from a sociological perspective. Informed by the sociologists Max Weber and Niklas Luhmann, it addresses the concept as the centre of constitutional controversy and as a resource to deal with paradoxes of power in constitutional democracies. It discusses the dilemmas of sovereignty that appear in the wake of the emphasis on political representation, human rights and European integration. The book is a contribution to the scholarly debate on the foundation of constitutional democracy. Manchester University Press 2023.