Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Paperback)

The authors deal with the place of parliamentary politics in democracy. Apparently a truism, parliamentarism is in fact a missing research object in democratic theory, and a devalued institutional reference in democratic politics. Yet the parliamentary culture of politics historically explains the rise and fall of modern democracies. From the Contents: * Part I: The Uses of Parliamentarism Parliamentary Emergency Powers: A Political Chimera? Questions in the House: Parliamentary Politics and the Rhetoric of 'Question-Time' Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies as Parliamentary Bodies 'Advanced Liberalism' and the Politics of Reform in Victorian Parliamentary Culture The Mandate in the Parliament Varieties of Anti-Parliamentarism in Europe Revising the Aggregative Role of Parliaments in a Fragmented World * Part II: Debating Democratic Theory and Performance The Rhetorical Use of 'Parliamentarism' and the Interwar Crisis of Democracy Democracy and Compromise: Why Consensus is not Democratic? The Legitimacy Politics of the Theory of Aleatory Democracy The Paradox of Democratic Selection: Is Lottery Better than Voting? Can Deliberative Mini-Publics Help to Improve the Standards of Representative Democracy? The Editors: Kari Palonen, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre of Political Thought and Conceptual Change, Editor of Redescriptions, and Co-founder of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Jose Maria Rosales, Associate Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Malaga, Spain, and board member of Concepta, International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought, University of Helsinki, Finland

General

Imprint:	Verlag Barbara Budrich
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	June 2015
Editors:	Kari Palonen • Jose Maria Rosales
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-3-8474-0158-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
LSN:	3-8474-0158-0
Barcode:	9783847401582

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