Parliament and Parliamentarism : : A Comparative History of a European Concept / / ed. by Pasi Ihalainen, Kari Palonen, Cornelia Ilie.

Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberati...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:European Conceptual History ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Parliament as a Conceptual Nexus
  • Part I. The Conceptual History of Parliaments
  • CHAPTER 1 European Parliamentary Experiences from a Conceptual Historical Perspective
  • CHAPTER 2 Key Concepts for Parliament in Britain (1640–1800)
  • CHAPTER 3 Discussing the First Age of French Parliamentarism (1789–1914)
  • CHAPTER 4 From Monarchical Constitutionalism to a Parliamentary Republic: Concepts of Parliamentarism in Germany since 1818
  • CHAPTER 5 Passion and Reason: Modern Parliaments in the Low Countries
  • CHAPTER 6 The Formation of Parliamentarism in the Nordic Countries from the Napoleonic Wars to the First World War
  • CHAPTER 7 The Conceptual History of the Russian State Duma
  • Part II. The Discourse and Rhetoric of Modern Parliaments
  • CHAPTER 8 Parliamentary Discourse and Deliberative Rhetoric
  • CHAPTER 9 Rhetoric, Parliament and the Monarchy in Pre-revolutionary England
  • CHAPTER 10 French Parliamentary Discourse, 1789–1914
  • CHAPTER 11 German Parliamentary Discourse since 1848 from a Linguistic Point of View
  • CHAPTER 12 Central and Eastern European Parliamentary Rhetoric since the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Romania and Poland
  • Part III. Parliament and Parliamentarism in Political Theory
  • CHAPTER 13 Political Theories of Parliamentarism
  • CHAPTER 14 Thinking of Politics in a Parliamentary Manner: Perspectives on the Conceptual History of Parliamentarism
  • CHAPTER 15 Theories of Representative Government and Parliamentarism in Italy from the 1840s to the 1920s
  • CHAPTER 16 Parliamentarism and Democracy in German Political Theory since 1848
  • CHAPTER 17 Parliamentarism in Spanish Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: From Constitutional Liberalism to Democratic Parliamentarism
  • CHAPTER 18 Towards a Political Theory of EU Parliamentarism
  • Epilogue: Some Challenges to Parliamentarism
  • Index