Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept
Pasi Ihalainen (Ed.)
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Description for Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept
Hardback. This tightly organized collection locates the essence of European parliamentarism in four key aspects-deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty-and explores the ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in various states and regions. Editor(s): Ihalainen, Pasi; Ilie, Cornelia; Palonen, Kari. Series: European Conceptual History. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JPB; JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 640.
Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects-deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty-and explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and regional case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European countries, representative institutions, and genres of political discourse.
Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects-deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty-and explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and regional case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European countries, representative institutions, and genres of political discourse.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
European Conceptual History
Condition
New
Weight
640g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782389545
SKU
V9781782389545
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99-15
About Pasi Ihalainen (Ed.)
Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. His many publications include his most recent book The Springs of Democracy: National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917-1919 (2017). He is a board member of the research network EuParl.net.Cornelia Ilie is Professor of Linguistics and Rhetoric, ... Read more
Reviews for Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept
The focus on representation, sovereignty, responsibility and deliberation offers a lot: the book convincingly demonstrates how these concepts from as early as seventeenth-century Britain recur time and time again in political controversies over what parliament is or should be. Thanks to this specific approach, the quality of the case studies and the coherence between them are significant. Parliament, Estates ... Read more