Foundations of Democracy in the European Union: From the Genesis of Parliamentary Democracy to the European Parliament

✍ Scribed by John Pinder (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 164
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Development of European Democracy....Pages 1-3
Mediaeval Flanders and the Seeds of Modern Democracy....Pages 4-17
Republican Freedom against Monarchical Absolutism: The Dutch Experience in the Seventeenth Century....Pages 18-32
William III, the Glorious Revolution and the Development of Parliamentary Democracy in Britain....Pages 33-40
The United States Constitution and its Roots in British Political Thought and Tradition....Pages 41-58
Proudhon and Anti-jacobin Federalism....Pages 59-69
Anglo-saxon Influences and the Development of German Democracy after World War Two....Pages 70-86
The European Parliament and the Idea of European Representative Government....Pages 87-106
Foundations for Democracy in the European Union....Pages 107-127
Back Matter....Pages 128-151

✦ Subjects

European Union Politics; Democracy

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