Organizing Democracy - Reflections on the Rise of Political Organizations in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book explores the new types of political organization that emerged in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century, from popular meetings to single-issue organizations and political parties. The development of these has often been used to demonstrate a movement towards democratic representation or political institutionalization. This volume challenges the idea that the development of 'democracy' is a story of rise and progress at all. It is rather a story of continuous but never completely satisfying attempts of interpreting the rule of the people. Taking the perspective of nineteenth-century organizers as its point of departure, this study shows that contemporaries hardly distinguished between petitioning, meeting and association. The attraction of organizing was that it promised representation, accountability and popular participation. Only in the twentieth century did parties reliable partners for the state in averting revolution, managing the unpredictable effects of universal suffrage, and reforming society. This collection analyzes them in their earliest stage, as just one of several types of civil society organizations, that did not differ that much from each other. The promise of organization, and the experiments that resulted from it, deeply impacted modern politics.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Political History
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Henk te Velde • Maartje Janse
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	295
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-50019-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-50019-8
Barcode:	9783319500195

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