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Parliamentarism - From Burke to Weber (Hardcover)
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Parliamentarism - From Burke to Weber (Hardcover)
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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