Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850-1950 : : concepts, practices, and mythologies / / edited by Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira.
Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions, and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-mak...
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| Superior document: | Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 311 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction 1. Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires 2. Montesquieu vs. Bagehot: Two Visions of Parliamentarism in Japan 3. Public opinion under imperial benevolence: Japanese 'National Essence' leader Torio Koyata's anti-liberal parliamentarianism in the Genro-in and the House of Lords 4. Zemskii sobor (The Assembly of the Land): Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian "parliament" 5. The 22 Frimaire of Yuan Shikai: Privy Councils in the Constitutional Architectures of Japan and China, 1887-1917 6. A Rada for the empire: An invented tradition of Cossack self-governance during the 1905 Revolution 7. Ottoman Parliamentary Procedure in the Chamber of Deputies (Meclis-i Mebusan) and the Great National Assembly of Turkey (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi), 1876-1923 8. Nominal Democracy in Stalinism: The Soviet Constitution of 1936 9. The Preparations for the First Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Quest for Legitimacy.