Tom Theuns writes: "popular sovereignty, and self-governance, lie at the heart of many conceptions of democracy". (https://theloop.ecpr.eu/to-understand-democracy-we-need-democratic-theory/)
Is there a defensible, or ethically/morally justifiable, concept of democracy that is not premised on both popular sovereignty and self-governance?
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/to-understand-democracy-we-need-democratic-theory/