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Parliamentarism - From Burke to Weber (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,658
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Parliamentarism - From Burke to Weber (Hardcover): William Selinger

Parliamentarism - From Burke to Weber (Hardcover)

William Selinger

Series: Ideas in Context

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For eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Burke, Constant, and Mill, a powerful representative assembly that freely deliberated and controlled the executive was the defining institution of a liberal state. Yet these figures also feared that representative assemblies were susceptible to usurpation, gridlock, and corruption. Parliamentarism was their answer to this dilemma: a constitutional model that enabled a nation to be truly governed by a representative assembly. Offering novel interpretations of canonical liberal authors, this history of liberal political ideas suggests a new paradigm for interpreting the development of modern political thought, inspiring fresh perspectives on historical issues from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. In doing so, Selinger suggests the wider significance of parliament and the theory of parliamentarism in the development of European political thought, revealing how contemporary democratic theory, and indeed the challenges facing representative government today, are historically indebted to classical parliamentarism.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Ideas in Context
Release date: July 2019
Authors: William Selinger
Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-47574-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
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LSN: 1-108-47574-4
Barcode: 9781108475747

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