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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.
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.
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political
processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues
that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were
enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the
Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the
rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that
existing modes of action, thought and practice simply became
extinct, irrelevant or at least subordinate to new modes. In
contrast, this collection examines continuities between early
modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and
the Americas. Shifting the focus from political modernization, the
authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local,
practices in (post)revolutionary politics. By doing so, they aim to
highlight the role of local political traditions and practices in
forging and enabling political change. The book argues that while
political change was in fact at the centre of both the old and new
polities that emerged in the Age of Revolutions, it coexisted with,
and was indeed enabled by, continuities at other levels.
This edited collection explores the perceptions and memories of
parliamentarianism across Europe, examining the complex ideal of
parliament since 1800. Parliament has become the key institution in
modern democracy, and the chapters present the evolution of the
ideal of parliamentary representation and government, and discuss
the reception and value of parliament as an institution. It is
considered both as a guiding concept, a Leitidee, as well as an
ideal, an Idealtypus. The volume is split into three sections. The
establishment of parliament in the nineteenth century and the
transfer of parliamentary ideals, models and practices are
described in the first section, based on the British and French
models. The second part explores how the high expectations of
parliamentary democracy in newly-established states after the First
World War gradually started to subside into dissatisfaction.
Finally, the last section attests to its resilience after the
Second World War, demonstrating the strength of the ideal of
parliament and its power to incorporate criticism. Examining the
history of parliament through concepts and ideals, this book traces
a transnational, European exchange of models, routines and
discourse.
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political
processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues
that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were
enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the
Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the
rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that
existing modes of action, thought and practice simply became
extinct, irrelevant or at least subordinate to new modes. In
contrast, this collection examines continuities between early
modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and
the Americas. Shifting the focus from political modernization, the
authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local,
practices in (post)revolutionary politics. By doing so, they aim to
highlight the role of local political traditions and practices in
forging and enabling political change. The book argues that while
political change was in fact at the centre of both the old and new
polities that emerged in the Age of Revolutions, it coexisted with,
and was indeed enabled by, continuities at other levels.
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history,
democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of
governance, but also social and political thought throughout the
world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of
democracy in modern Europe, from the Industrial Revolutions of the
nineteenth century through both world wars and the rise of welfare
states to the present era of the European Union. Exploring
individual countries as well as regional dynamics, this volume
comprises a tightly organized, comprehensive, and thoroughly
up-to-date exploration of a foundational issue in European
political and intellectual history.
This edited collection explores the perceptions and memories of
parliamentarianism across Europe, examining the complex ideal of
parliament since 1800. Parliament has become the key institution in
modern democracy, and the chapters present the evolution of the
ideal of parliamentary representation and government, and discuss
the reception and value of parliament as an institution. It is
considered both as a guiding concept, a Leitidee, as well as an
ideal, an Idealtypus. The volume is split into three sections. The
establishment of parliament in the nineteenth century and the
transfer of parliamentary ideals, models and practices are
described in the first section, based on the British and French
models. The second part explores how the high expectations of
parliamentary democracy in newly-established states after the First
World War gradually started to subside into dissatisfaction.
Finally, the last section attests to its resilience after the
Second World War, demonstrating the strength of the ideal of
parliament and its power to incorporate criticism. Examining the
history of parliament through concepts and ideals, this book traces
a transnational, European exchange of models, routines and
discourse.
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