Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept

✍ Scribed by Pasi Ihalainen (editor), Cornelia Ilie (editor), Kari Palonen (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Series: European Conceptual History, 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Parliament and Parliamentarism
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Parliament as a Conceptual Nexus
PART I The Conceptual History of Parliaments
Chapter 1 European Parliamentary Experiences from a Conceptual Historical Perspective
Chapter 2 Key Concepts for Parliament in Britain (1640-1800)
Chapter 3 Discussing the First Age of French Parliamentarism (1789-1914)
Chapter 4 From Monarchical Constitutionalism to a Parliamentary Republic
Chapter 5 Passion and Reason
Chapter 6 The Formation of Parliamentarism in the Nordic Countries from the Napoleonic Wars to the First World War
Chapter 7 The Conceptual History of the Russian State Duma
PART II The Discourse and Rhetoric of Modern Parliaments
Chapter 8 Parliamentary Discourse and Deliberative Rhetoric
Chapter 9 Rhetoric, Parliament and the Monarchy in Pre-revolutionary England
Chapter 10 French Parliamentary Discourse, 1789-1914
Chapter 11 German Parliamentary Discourse since 1848 from a Linguistic Point of View
Chapter 12 Central and Eastern European Parliamentary Rhetoric since the Nineteenth Century
PART III Parliament and Parliamentarism in Political Theory
Chapter 13 Political Theories of Parliamentarism
Chapter 14 Thinking of Politics in a Parliamentary Manner
Chapter 15 Theories of Representative Government and Parliamentarism in Italy from the 1840s to the 1920s
Chapter 16 Parliamentarism and Democracy in German Political Theory since 1848
Chapter 17 Parliamentarism in Spanish Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 18 Towards a Political Theory of EU Parliamentarism
Epilogue
Index